From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Jun 24 13:58:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA06100 for ports-outgoing; Tue, 24 Jun 1997 13:58:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cliffy.statsci.com (root@cliffy.statsci.com [206.63.206.72]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA06094 for ; Tue, 24 Jun 1997 13:58:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from apple.statsci.com (apple [206.63.206.4]) by cliffy.statsci.com (8.8.6/8.8.6/Hub) with SMTP id NAA05124; Tue, 24 Jun 1997 13:56:44 -0700 Received: from apple.statsci.com [206.63.206.4] with smtp by apple.statsci.com with smtp (/\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.3 #3) id m0wgcdm-0006uMC; Tue, 24 Jun 97 13:56 PDT Message-Id: X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0gamma 1/27/96 To: James FitzGibbon cc: Satoshi Asami , roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, freebsd-ports@hub.freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/3936: perl 5.004_01 is already available References: In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 24 Jun 1997 03:03:16 -0400." From: Scott Blachowicz Reply-to: scott@statsci.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 13:56:41 -0700 Sender: owner-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk James FitzGibbon 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