USES vs BUILD_DEPENDS

[Daniel Eischen]

On Sun, 29 Mar 2015, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 12:41:21PM -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote:
>> I have a port which needs pod2man just to build the man file
>> during installation.  Why do I need USES= pod2man:perl5 just to
>> build the port?  It doesn't seem feasible to use BUILD_DEPENDS
>> because there is no generic perl5 port.
>>
> Have you tried using pod2mdoc ?

No, I didn't know about it, I will check it out.  I searched other
ports (grep) and found pod2man used.  My port's (internal)
doc/Makefile uses pod2man.

> Btw USES=pod2man:perl5 does not exists :)

Sorry, I meant USES= perl5.

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