On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 08:56:02PM -0700, Andrew Fresh wrote: > 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.
If you do a revision bump, you can do this ahead of time, just comment the empty .bs file out of the plist, as it doesn't actually matter.