From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Sep 30 14:01:09 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA09983 for ports-outgoing; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 14:01:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA09933 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 14:01:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (root@mexico.brainstorm.eu.org [193.56.58.253]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id NAA21945 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 13:35:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (brasil.brainstorm.eu.org [193.56.58.33]) by mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA00784 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 22:35:35 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) with UUCP id WAA01872 for freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 22:35:33 +0200 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.8.0/keltia-uucp-2.9) id WAA03735; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 22:29:34 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199609302029.WAA03735@keltia.freenix.fr> Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 22:29:33 +0200 From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New collection for ports - perl ? In-Reply-To: ; from James FitzGibbon on Sep 30, 1996 13:21:34 -0400 References: X-Mailer: Mutt 0.45i Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT ctm#2522 Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk According to James FitzGibbon: > perl5 includes an imake-like tool called MakeMaker, so porting them is a > piece of cake. Once installed, they even include a packing list, making > the generation of pkg/PLIST a simple task. I'm not sure it is interesting as it would duplicate something already present in the Perl mechanisms (MakeMaker and al) and would only be a wrapper around perl Makefile.PL make make test make install I don't think it is worth the bother. There is no need to port anything because everything has already been done when you installed Perl itself in term of system dependencies. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #23: Sun Sep 29 14:56:23 MET DST 1996