PERL_RUN_DEPENDS and PERL_BUILD_DEPENDS

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Wed Oct 12 16:07:14 PDT 2005


On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 07:12:28AM +1000, Edwin Groothuis wrote:
> 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.

What about INDEX builds?

Kris
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