atom feed5 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-portsRe: New collection for ports - perl ?
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James FitzGibbonSep 30, 1996 10:21 am 
Ollivier RobertSep 30, 1996 1:29 pm 
NarviOct 1, 1996 2:29 am 
James FitzGibbonOct 1, 1996 7:23 am 
David E. O'BrienOct 1, 1996 10:54 am 
Subject:Re: New collection for ports - perl ?
From:Ollivier Robert (robe@keltia.freenix.fr)
Date:Sep 30, 1996 1:29:13 pm
List:org.freebsd.freebsd-ports

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.

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