Perl help needed

[Robert Huff]

Christoph Moench-Tegeder writes:

>  ## Robert Huff (roberthuff at rcn.com):
>  
>  > 	On a system with over 850 ports, 32 starting with "p5-", the
>  > list of dependent ports portmaster created from
>  > "pkg shlib -qR libperl.so.5.24" was over 200, including things like
>  > FireFox and llvm50 (llvm is required for mesa-dri).
>  
>  That sound like "too much". I've 1408 ports installed, of which 90
>  are named p5-*, and "pkg shlib -qR libperl.so.5.26" shows only 32 ports.
>  
>  Did you rebuild everything along the build-dependencies, or does your
>  build tool use the run-depdendencies?
>  There had been a time when ports had way too many dependencies registered,
>  if my memory serves right that was because many build-dependencies were
>  recorded as run-dependencies (or there was no distinction at all). Is
>  that a leftover effect from those times?

	"Insufficient data, Captain."
	I followed the instructions for portmaster from
UPDATING/20171103, only changing the version numbers.
	Running "pkg shlib -qR libperl.so.5.26" now produces 13 items;
this makes your explanation plausible, if not authoritative.

	Again, thanks.


				Robert Huff