On Nov 22, 2008, at 17:08, Moshe Kamensky wrote:
* Ryan Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [22/11/08 15:54]:
On Nov 22, 2008, at 10:10, Altoine Barker wrote:
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 8:03 PM, Moshe Kamensky wrote:
Is there a standard way to make applications that depend on perl
depend
on perl 5.10, rather than perl 5.8? Currently I'm just blindly
replacing
all occurrences of 'port:perl5.8' with 'port:perl5.10' in all
Portfiles,
but I think it's a bit unsafe.
I think the best solution would be to create a variant, unless
you are
referring to ports that depend on perl as a build dependency?
No variant, please; not for this. As was already said, just
declare the
dependency on perl as "path:bin/perl:perl5". That's the new style
we're
trying to switch all perl-depending ports to. See:
http://trac.macports.org/ticket/16830
I don't understand --- this seems to entail changing the Portfiles as
well (which I was trying to avoid). I was hoping there was some way to
do this by changing the configuration files
Yes, the ports must be changed. Anytime you have multiple ports that
should be allowed to satisfy a dependency (in this case, perl5,
perl5.8 or perl5.10) the dependency cannot be declared using the
port:-style and should be declared using the path:-style instead. Or,
if you also want to allow the system perl (the one that comes with
Mac OS X) to satisfy the dependency, then you should use the bin:-style.
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