Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 15:13:56 +0200 From: Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org> To: Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USES vs BUILD_DEPENDS Message-ID: <3022863A97E394A287EA8014@ogg.in.absolight.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.1503291236300.14490@sea.ntplx.net> References: <Pine.GSO.4.64.1503291236300.14490@sea.ntplx.net>
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+--On 29 mars 2015 12:41:21 -0400 Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org> wrote: | I have a port which needs pod2man just to build the man file | during installation. Why do I need USES= pod2man:perl5 just to | build the port? It doesn't seem feasible to use BUILD_DEPENDS | because there is no generic perl5 port. You need: USES=perl5 USE_PERL5=build Because that's the right way to say you need Perl to build your port. -- Mathieu Arnold
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