From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Sep 26 14:01:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA17933 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Sat, 26 Sep 1998 14:01:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lion.plab.ku.dk (lion.plab.ku.dk [130.225.105.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA17922; Sat, 26 Sep 1998 14:01:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tobez@lion.plab.ku.dk) Received: (from tobez@localhost) by lion.plab.ku.dk (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA25857; Sat, 26 Sep 1998 23:01:28 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from tobez) Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 23:01:28 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <199809262101.XAA25857@lion.plab.ku.dk> From: Anton Berezin To: asami@FreeBSD.ORG CC: jkh@time.cdrom.com, ports@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <199809252032.NAA13244@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> (asami@FreeBSD.ORG) Subject: Re: 3.0-current (a.out) failure for x11-toolkits/p5-Gtk CC: tobez@plab.ku.dk X-Mailer: GNU Emacs 19.34.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > From: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami) > * > There's no "new perl" that ports need to adopt -- Mark said the system > * > perl will behave exactly the same as lang/perl5 in terms of module > * > installation. > I am probably completely missing something, but I don't understand. > p5-Gtk (in conjuction with perl5, either system or ports) is supposed > to install all the stuff in /usr/local/lib/perl5. It does in 2.2, it > should in 3.0. If it doesn't, it's the system perl that's broken, not > the p5-Gtk port. Probably I missing something very much, but I cannot help wondering why on earth FreeBSD ports collection has such an _enormous_ amount of p5-thingy ports? Why duplicate CPAN? It is so easy (quite as easy as cding into /usr/ports and typing make install) to type perl -MCPAN -e shell and install everything one needs! I never ever had any problems with perl's ``official'' way of installing packages and distributions on FreeBSD (well, if you try some VMS or OS/2 stuff, who knows...) Not to mention that CPAN is really huge and BSD ports collection currently contains only a fraction of the stuff from there. Therefore, quite often one needs to go to CPAN anyway to install something which ports collection does not offer. The particular case of perl's Gtk is an excellent example of my point: it was downloaded, compiled, tested and installed just fine using CPAN. All and every manpages were put into correct places, corresponding to the relative paths of _particular_ local perl installation. For that matter - PERL KNOWS BETTER WHERE TO INSTALL ITS MODULES. Let it do the job it is good at. -- Anton Berezin The Protein Laboratory, University of Copenhagen Figure 4 shows memory usage for a script (program) written in the Perl scripting language. This program processes a file of string data. (We're not sure exactly what it is doing with the strings, to be honest; we do not really understand this program.) -- P.R. Wilson, M.S. Johnstone, M. Neely, and D. Boles To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message