Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 12:29:37 +0300 (EET DST) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New collection for ports - perl ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961001122424.12434A-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <199609302029.WAA03735@keltia.freenix.fr>
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On Mon, 30 Sep 1996, Ollivier Robert wrote: > According to James FitzGibbon: > > perl5 includes an imake-like tool called MakeMaker, so porting them is a > > piece of cake. Once installed, they even include a packing list, making > > the generation of pkg/PLIST a simple task. > > I'm not sure it is interesting as it would duplicate something already > present in the Perl mechanisms (MakeMaker and al) and would only be a > wrapper around > > perl Makefile.PL > make > make test > make install > > I don't think it is worth the bother. There is no need to port anything > because everything has already been done when you installed Perl itself in > term of system dependencies. It is. Actually, in case of some perl modules (was it GD?) you also will need some C code which is to be compiled. Also - there is the problem of maintaining the thing - was this or that module version 1.0, 2.0 or did I upgrade to 3.0? Did I remove all the files no more used by the newer one? None of these is handled by the MakeMaker. FreeBSD ports do have some solutions to these problems. Sander > -- > Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr > FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #23: Sun Sep 29 14:56:23 MET DST 1996 >
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