Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 12:28:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org> To: Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USES vs BUILD_DEPENDS Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.64.1503301228090.19132@sea.ntplx.net> In-Reply-To: <3022863A97E394A287EA8014@ogg.in.absolight.net> References: <Pine.GSO.4.64.1503291236300.14490@sea.ntplx.net> <3022863A97E394A287EA8014@ogg.in.absolight.net>
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On Mon, 30 Mar 2015, Mathieu Arnold wrote: > +--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. Ok, thanks! I'll try that. -- DE
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