PERL_RUN_DEPENDS and PERL_BUILD_DEPENDS

[Edwin Groothuis]

On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 05:17:50PM +0400, Sergey Skvortsov wrote:
> >The syntax is:
> >    PERL_BUILD_DEPENDS=	MIME-Lite:${PORTSDIR}/mail/p5-MIME-Lite
> >It checks the for the existence of MIME::Lite with the "perl -e
> >'use MIME::Lite'" command.
> Obviously this approach will cause great performance degrade.
> stat(2) is much more faster than loading perl.

Minimal compared with the time it takes to fetch distfiles and to
build. That's the only time it is checked.

Edwin
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