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From: James FitzGibbon <james@nexis.net>
To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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Subject: Re: Perl 
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On Tue, 25 Mar 1997, Warner Losh wrote:

> I think that the current perl ports do run it.  The line that I cut
> and paste was consistant between the three or four ports that I looked
> at.

Yes, almost all have to run it.  The exception are modules that the
author haven't followed the module spec for (mostly alpha/beta work where
the intent is to get people using the code without a pretty installer.)

> .if defined(PERL_CONFIGURE)
> HAS_CONFIGURE=		yes
> CONFIGURE_SCRIPT=	${PREFIX}/bin/perl Makefile.PL
> .endif
> 
> And then move the 
> 
> CONFIGURE_SCRIPT?=	configure


That seems like it would work.

--
j.