From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Jun 24 14:01:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA06364 for ports-outgoing; Tue, 24 Jun 1997 14:01:31 -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 OAA06351 for ; Tue, 24 Jun 1997 14:01:25 -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 OAA05373; Tue, 24 Jun 1997 14:01:16 -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 m0wgciB-0006uMC; Tue, 24 Jun 97 14:01 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 14:01:15 -0700 Sender: owner-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk James FitzGibbon wrote: > Using the specific version allows us to force an > upgrade of perl when a module requiring it is built. Should there be a make variable & a version check made for the modules? Maybe you could put a PERL5_VERSION_REQUIRED = '$] >= 5.00401' in the p5-* ports as appropriate, then have a check in a standard rule somewhere that waves the chosen PERL5_PROG (or whatever) over it to decide if it's sufficient for handling the particular p5-* port? 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