Specifying perl dependencies in a port

[Erwin Lansing]

On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 05:25:47PM -0400, Brent B. Powers wrote:
> I've a port that requires _either_ perl5 or perl5.8. This isn't a 
> problem on FBSD5, but on 4.11,  it appears that if I build the package 
> on a system with 5.8, 5.8 is specified as a dependency, and if the 
> package is build on a system with 5.6, 5.6 is set as a dependency.
> 
> Is there a clean way to specify (on 4.11) that we require a 'modern' perl?
> 

It depends on how you define "clean" :-)

> .if ${PERL_LEVEL} < 500600
> IGNORE=    Requires perl 5.6 or better. Please install lang/perl5.8 and 
> retry
> .endif
> 
I wouldn't call this very clean, but this is the way to do it. Note that
the last part should read lang/perl5 not lang/perl5.8 if it also works
on perl 5.6.x.

Cheers,
-erwin

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Erwin Lansing

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