PERL_RUN_DEPENDS and PERL_BUILD_DEPENDS

[Edwin Groothuis]

On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 07:07:10PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 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?

"make index" are multiple "make describe"s. A "make describe" is a
perl script with two extra variables: prdirs and pbdirs. The splitting
of PERL_RUN_DEPEND and PERL_BUILD_DEPENDS was first part of the
split of BUILD_DEPENDS and RUN_DEPENDS.

Edwin

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