Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:16:03 -0700 (PDT) From: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami) To: mark@grondar.za Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG, markm@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: perl and other fixes to bsd.port.mk Message-ID: <199808102216.PAA02682@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: <199808101516.RAA10596@gratis.grondar.za> (message from Mark Murray on Mon, 10 Aug 1998 17:16:26 %2B0200)
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* > You mean you're going to change the perl5 port as well as the version
* > imported to /usr/src to be like the previous version (i.e., no version
* > numbers in directories)?
*
* That was one of my ideas. You may remember a pice of mail I sent
* out a couple of days ago asking what folk thought. In hindsight I
* could have been clearer about my intentions.
Oh. I thought you were discussing where the root directory would go.
I didn't realize you were planning to get rid of the version-specific
directories too.
Anyway, about that idea...are you sure you want to do that? The perl
people should have a pretty good reason why they went that direction
despite the trouble it's causing to people. It is often not a good
idea to revert what the original authors are doing.
Do you remember when emacs' lisp files went from lib/emacs to
share/emacs a few years ago? The mule people didn't like that so when
they released their patched version, they kept things in lib. Well, a
few years later, they decided they should follow suit too, and now we
have a huge mess of stuff scatterred about in lib/emacs and
share/emacs.
Just an observation from the outside. I know nothing about perl5
development, so apologies if I'm way off base. :)
* Apologies. I was working from a base of ignorance and speed - I'd
* like to get perl5 into 3.0 ASAP, and I thought that a step forward
* was thrashing out the ports issues.
"Thrashing out" is fine, but let's do that by discussing it first, not
breaking a whole bunch of ports, ok? :p
* Er, not quite. :-) Your work will be very useful in making the 3.* perl ports
* (and the 2.2.8 ones) work properly.
Ok. I'll attach the diffs for devel/p5-* stuff. The will install and
deinstall without a single warning with the bsd.port.mk patch I posted
last night. I also changed some @dirrm's to "@unexec rmdir 2>/dev/null
|| true"'s to get rid of warnings.
They should work fine by just changing the "PERL_VERSION" and
"PERL_VER" variables in bsd.port.mk when perl is upgraded.
* Here is my proposed scheme:
*
* Perl5-distributed library stuff goes in /usr/libdata/[{alpha|i386}-freebsd/]*
* Perl5 ports go in /usr/local/libexec/perl5/[{alpha|i386}-freebsd/]*
*
* How do you feel about that?
You mean they all go directly under those directories with no
versions? I guess that's ok, but hard to tell, things are so
scattered right now.
Also, the manpages should probably go to /usr/local/share/perl5.
"lib" was already a little out of place but they definitely don't
belong in "libexec".
Satoshi
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