Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 13:56:41 -0700 From: Scott Blachowicz <scott@statsci.com> To: James FitzGibbon <james@nexis.net> Cc: Satoshi Asami <asami@cs.berkeley.edu>, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, freebsd-ports@hub.freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/3936: perl 5.004_01 is already available Message-ID: <m0wgcdm-0006uMC@apple.statsci.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 24 Jun 1997 03:03:16 -0400." <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970624030050.4055A-100000@nexis.net> References: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970624030050.4055A-100000@nexis.net>
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James FitzGibbon <james@nexis.net> wrote: > We are, however, working on a way to solve the bsd.port.mk problem, which > should make all the pieces fall into place. In theory. OK...so the main thing I was wondering was if individuals should have the ability to locally override the perl command that gets used. If so, then something that is locally overrideable (e.g. a symlink in /usr/local/bin/, a make variable assignment from /etc/make.conf, whatever) should be used for the final word on the perl program name... PERL5_PROG ?= perl5.00401 BUILD_DEPENDS+= ${PERL5_PROG}:${PORTSDIR}/lang/perl5 RUN_DEPENDS+= ${PERL5_PROG}:${PORTSDIR}/lang/perl5 Scott Blachowicz Ph: 206/283-8802x240 Mathsoft (Data Analysis Products Div) 1700 Westlake Ave N #500 scott@statsci.com Seattle, WA USA 98109 Scott.Blachowicz@seaslug.org
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