Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 10:59:14 -0700 From: Jason Helfman <jgh@FreeBSD.org> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Cc: swills@freebsd.org, perl@freebsd.org, doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: [PATCH] porters-handbook: document PERL recommended dependency Message-ID: <1335376754.649487.92708.nullmailer@experts-exchange.com>
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>Submitter-Id: current-users >Originator: Jason Helfman >Organization: >Confidential: no >Synopsis: [PATCH] porters-handbook: document PERL recommended dependency >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Category: docs >Class: change-request >Release: FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE amd64 >Environment: System: FreeBSD dormouse.experts-exchange.com 8.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE #0: Mon Apr 9 21:23:18 UTC >Description: document PERL recommended dependency portions migrated from wiki: http://wiki.freebsd.org/PortsLongtermTargets#Use_of_SITE_PERL_in_dependencies Port maintainer (doc@FreeBSD.org) is cc'd. Generated with FreeBSD Port Tools 0.99_5 (mode: change, diff: CVS) >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: --- .patch begins here --- Index: book.sgml =================================================================== RCS file: /home/dcvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml,v retrieving revision 1.1182 diff -u -r1.1182 book.sgml --- book.sgml 22 Apr 2012 03:20:30 -0000 1.1182 +++ book.sgml 25 Apr 2012 17:58:30 -0000 @@ -5600,6 +5600,23 @@ <literal>http://search.cpan.org/dist/Module-Name/</literal>; (including the trailing slash).</para> </note> + <note> + <para>It is <emphasis>not</emphasis> recommended to use <literal> + ${SITE_PERL}</literal> as a dependency listing. This is problematic + because it means that bsd.perl.mk must be included to satisfy the + dependency. + </para> + </note> + + <example id="use-perl-not-recommended-example"> + <title>PERL Not Recommended Dependency Example</title> + <programlisting>${SITE_PERL}/IO/Tee.pm:${PORTSDIR}/devel/p5-IO-Tee</programlisting> + </example> + + <example id="use-perl-dependency-example"> + <title>PERL Recommended Dependency Example</title> + <programlisting>p5-IO-Tee>=0.64:${PORTSDIR}/devel/p5-IO-Tee</programlisting> + </example> </sect1> <sect1 id="using-x11"> --- .patch ends here ---
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