Port dependencies on p5-Test-*

[Lars Balker Rasmussen]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 03:32:46AM +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> There is a ridiculous amount of p5-* ports that have completely
> unnecessary build dependencies on p5-Test-*.  These package are usually
> only needed to run unit tests (cd ${WRKSRC} && make test), which *none*
> of those ports do.
> 
> (ridiculous, in this case, means close to 300)
> 
> What's worse, most of these ports have RUN_DEPENDS = ${BUILD_DEPENDS},
> which means even the prebuilt packages have these unnecessary
> dependencies!
> 
> All of this could be avoided by adding these few lines to the port's
> Makefile, and removing p5-Test-* from BUILD_DEPENDS:
> 
> pre-configure:
>         @(cd ${WRKSRC} && ${REINPLACE_CMD} -E -e \
>             "s/'?Test::[^']+'?[[:space:]]*=>[[:space:]]'?[0-9.]+'?,//" \
>             Makefile.PL)
> 
> (some ports also need to edit Build.PL)
> 
> Alternatively, this could be added to bsd.perl.mk, conditional on the
> presence of a PERL_UNTESTIFY_FILES variable which would list Makefile.PL
> and / or Build.PL for the ports that require it.

I completely agree, and have been weeding both practices from my ports
when I touch them.  Maybe a blanket sweep of all Test:: dependencies is
is in order.

(Even better, obsolete 5.6 so Test::More is in core-perl, making it all
the simpler.)
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Lars Balker Rasmussen                                        Consult::Perl