So perl-5.20 got a new MakeMaker, which cures bug #28992 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=28992
This means that it no longer installs empty .bs files. Those are "bootstrap" files, with the .bs extension. When perl-5.20 is ready for import, all of the PLISTs that currently list these empty .bs files will have to change. Fortunately these are only XS modules, grep says only 236 ports! The perl library version will bump at the same time, so may even be able to get away without a REVISION bump with some coordinated timing. None of the architectures I checked had any content in the existing .bs files, so those files could be removed from the PLISTs at any time. I have it on good authority that Debian already prunes them in their packaging. I did find this by testing out perl-5.20.0 as system-perl, so I do have some things I want to do yet, but it's not terribly far off. l8rZ, -- andrew - http://afresh1.com Computer programmers know how to use their hardware.
