Date: 18 May 2002 19:04:34 +0200 From: Henrik Motakef <henrik.motakef@web.de> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Perl scripts Message-ID: <871yc9fkv1.fsf@apo.hmotakef.int>
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Hi.
Now that perl is going away from the base system, how do we handle
perl scripts in a way that works with both 4.x and 5.x systems?
The easy part would be rewriting the shebang lines to "#!/usr/bin/env
perl", but how to go about dependencies? I have heard (maybe thats
just a rumor) that there will be an executable in /usr/bin/perl that
will call ${PREFIX}/bin/perl if available, so adding a line like
RUN_DEPENDS=perl:${PORTSDIR}/lang/perl5
won't work. Then again, depending on ${PREFIX}/bin/perl would force
installation of the perl5 port even on systems that have
/usr/bin/perl.
Would depending on perl5:${PORTSDIR}/lang/perl5 be a good idea?
(i.e. will there be a wrapper called /usr/bin/perl5 in base?)
Or would testing ${OSVERSION} be the right thing?
Regards
Henrik
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