Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 22:29:16 +1100 From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> To: Lev Serebryakov <lev@serebryakov.spb.ru> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Reasons for USE_AUTOCONF/USE_AUTOMAKE usage? Message-ID: <20021210112916.GO50581@k7.mavetju> In-Reply-To: <1391185187.20021210134804@serebryakov.spb.ru> References: <1391185187.20021210134804@serebryakov.spb.ru>
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On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 01:48:04PM +0300, Lev Serebryakov wrote: > Hello, freebsd-ports! How are you? > > Why so many ports declare, that they use autoconf/automake, and, > via them, perl5? >> > Many programs compiles fine with bundled `configure'. and > `Makefile.in' files and could be compiled without any perl5! Is here A part of autoconf253 (actually, autom4te) is a perl-script, so a lot of ports have USE_PERL5=yes in their Makefile if they use autoconf. It wasn't until later that somebody thought there should be a difference between USE_PERL5_BUILD and _RUN, but a lot of the damage was done already. Further, a couple of ports use pod2man which is part of perl too. Edwin, back in the land of the living. -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org edwin@mavetju.org | Weblog: http://www.mavetju.org/weblog/weblog.php bash$ :(){ :|:&};: | Interested in MUDs? http://www.FatalDimensions.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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