ports/183305: some perl5 modules with .xs components fail to install/package
Zverev Andrey
azverev at ozon.ru
Sat Oct 26 04:54:03 UTC 2013
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> Core EU::MM are not affected.
Yes, I know.
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> Only few (<20) ports depend on devel/p5-ExtUtils-MakeMaker.
In this case we are lucky :-)
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> It only affects users with devel/p5-ExtUtils-MakeMaker 6.80 installed.
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> I've made an ugly patch [1] to solve this issue (and not to touch other p5-*
> PLISTs).
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> [1] http://people.freebsd.org/~sunpoet/p5-ExtUtils-MakeMaker.patch
>
Patch looks good to me, if you don't mind can you add more explained comment to patch? Like:
ExtUtils::MakeMaker starting from 6.80 by default does not copy .bs files if they are empty.
More information can be obtained from ports/183305
But in long term we still need make some moves.
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