From owner-freebsd-perl@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 25 20:00:30 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: perl@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E28D10656B9 for ; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 20:00:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2981F8FC16 for ; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 20:00:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p9PK0R5D099545 for ; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 20:00:27 GMT (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id p9PK0R93099543; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 20:00:27 GMT (envelope-from gnats) Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 20:00:27 GMT Message-Id: <201110252000.p9PK0R93099543@freefall.freebsd.org> To: perl@FreeBSD.org From: Michael G Schwern Cc: Subject: Re: ports/160759: [PATCH] devel/p5-ExtUtils-MakeMaker: update to 6.59 X-BeenThere: freebsd-perl@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Michael G Schwern List-Id: maintainer of a number of perl-related ports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 20:00:30 -0000 The following reply was made to PR ports/160759; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Michael G Schwern To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, freebsd@beardz.net Cc: Subject: Re: ports/160759: [PATCH] devel/p5-ExtUtils-MakeMaker: update to 6.59 Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 12:33:14 -0700 Hi, I maintain ExtUtils::MakeMaker. This patch is a correct solution to the conflict between ExtUtils::MakeMaker and ExtUtils::Install. MakeMaker is supposed to depend on ExtUtils::Install, but to do so normally would introduce a dependency loop. A less invasive solution would be to delete the contents of bundled. Make sure the bundled dependencies are marked as package dependencies. PS If there is some sort of environment variable FreeBSD sets while creating a package, I could have MakeMaker watch for that. It would not use the bundled versions and instead declare them as dependencies. Thanks, Schwern