Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2002 13:20:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Anton Berezin <tobez@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/41265: New port: textproc/p5-Text-Reflow Message-ID: <200208032020.g73KK4Hb045933@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/41265; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Anton Berezin <tobez@FreeBSD.org>
To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Cc: Mathieu Arnold <mat@mat.cc>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: ports/41265: New port: textproc/p5-Text-Reflow
Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2002 22:16:21 +0200
On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 12:30:04AM -0700, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> just found out that it "require 5.005_62"
>
> what is the best way to test the perl version ?
At the moment the best way is to make absolutely sure that the port in
question indeed requires perl 5.6 or above. A lot of perl modules that
require 5.005_62 do that for unimportant reasons like using `our'
instead of `use vars', using `use warnings', and ...oh well, that's
about it, I think. Such things can be trivially patched, even by
oneliners in the port's Makefile. Some examples:
textproc/p5-Text-FixedLength-Extra
www/p5-WWW-Automate
databases/p5-GraphViz-DBI
If this is not the case, and the module indeed requires more substantial
modifications to make it work with 5.005_03 (for example, some extended
operations with fields.pm, the use of @+ and @- magic arrays, unicode
stuff), the solution similar to the one you propose should work.
>
> shall I do something like :
>
> .if ${PERL_VER} =3D=3D 5.005
> BROKEN=3D"Needs Perl 5.6, you can install it from ports
> (${PORTSDIR}/lang/perl5"
> .endif
>
> which does not work...
>
> help, someone ?
For example:
pre-everything:
@${PERL} -M5.006 -e1 2>/dev/null || \
( ${ECHO_MSG} "===> Requires perl 5.6 or above (available from the ports collection)"; \
false )
This should, more or less, do what you want.
That said, if perl5/perl5.8 ports were to run use.perl port
automatically upon install, the easier solution would be to just include
perl5 as a dependency. This might happen one day.
=Anton.
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