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Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 11:12:29 +0900
From: Masafumi NAKANE <max@wide.ad.jp>
Subject: Re: PERL_ARCH
To: Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org>
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I came to a conclusion that using PERL_ARCH to substitute something 
like i386-freebsd in the installation path names for non-perl 
programs is a totally wrong idea.  I haven't looked through the 
commit logs, so I'm not too certain, but someone probably blindly 
replaced i386-freebsd to %%PERL_ARCH%% in the plist when PERL_ARCH 
was introduced.

For perl related programs, e.g. perl modules, %%PERL_ARCH%% wokrs 
fine depending on the perl version on the system, and bsd.port.mk is 
appropriate, I think.

The solution I used was to define something like the following in 
the Makefile:

OS!= uname -s | tr A-Z a-z
PLIST_SUB= ARCH=${ARCH} OS=${OS}

and in the plist use %%ARCH%%-%%OS%%, instead.

      Cheers,
Max

On Sat, 06 Jan 2001 13:34:29 -0800, Doug Barton wrote:
> Masafumi NAKANE wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm now upgrading swi-pl, which installs some files into
> > lib/%%DISTNAME%%/bin/i386-freebsd.  Earlier, it could be written as
> > lib/%%DISTNAME%%/bin/%%PERL_ARCH%%, but now on -CURRENT, it expands to
> > lib/pl-3.4.4/bin/mach and %%PERL_ARCH%% cannot be used in this
> > context.
> > 
> > Now, my question is how should I write these pathnames in the plist.
> 
> 	I asked the following question back on 11/24 and got no answer. I'm
> still curious about this...
> 
> >         I'm trying to track down some plist problems with a new port, and
> > noticed the following in bsd.port.mk from 1.341:
> > 
> > .if ${OSVERSION} >= 500007
> > PERL_VERSION=   5.6.0
> > PERL_VER=               5.6.0
> > PERL_ARCH=              mach
> > .else
> > .if ${OSVERSION} >= 300000
> > PERL_VERSION=   5.00503
> > .else
> > PERL_VERSION=   5.00502
> > .endif
> > PERL_VER=               5.005
> > PERL_ARCH=              ${ARCH}-freebsd
> > .endif
> > 
> > I'm confused as to why we want PERL_ARCH to always be "mach". Probably
> > something obvious that I'm missing here...


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