Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 19:04:45 -0400 From: Adam Weinberger <adamw@magnesium.net> To: "Brent B. Powers" <bbp2006@columbia.edu> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Specifying perl dependencies in a port Message-ID: <42F29F0D.7040307@magnesium.net> In-Reply-To: <42F287DB.9050307@columbia.edu> References: <42F287DB.9050307@columbia.edu>
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Brent B. Powers wrote:
> I've a port that requires _either_ perl5 or perl5.8. This isn't a
> problem on FBSD5, but on 4.11, it appears that if I build the package
> on a system with 5.8, 5.8 is specified as a dependency, and if the
> package is build on a system with 5.6, 5.6 is set as a dependency.
>
> Is there a clean way to specify (on 4.11) that we require a 'modern' perl?
>
> .if ${PERL_LEVEL} < 500600
> IGNORE= Requires perl 5.6 or better. Please install lang/perl5.8 and
> retry
> .endif
Instead of marking it IGNORE there, why not just add a
BUILD_/RUN_DEPENDS on lang/perl5.8?
# Adam
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