it is updated not to have the perl-mk dependency.
This braindead nature of pkgsrc to register all dependencies recursively
into binary pkgs *will* be fixed.
to install things like "open.3" and "lib.3" which confuse users. Perl
ships with a documentation tool, "perldoc", for this purpose; create a
MESSAGE indicating that it should be used instead. (Perl still installs
command line program manual pages in man1.)
* Integrate bsd.perl.mk into the perl5-base build where it should have been
from the beginning. The separate perl-mk pkg makes binary packages of
perl-mk completely useless[*]. Older perl builders will not break, since
<bsd.pkg.mk> contains fallback definitions that are evaluated at pkg
build time.
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[*] bsd.perl.mk is tightly bound to the version of perl that is installed.
The version name "perl-mk-1.1" is completely useless as a binary pkg,
since keeping multiple binary versions of perl on a FTP server means
that one of the perl-mk's will get clobbered.
However, putting the current pkgsrc PERL5_DIST_VERS in the perl-mk pkg
is also a problem, because that doesn't necessarily reflect the
installed version of perl. Snarfing the installed version at perl-mk
build time would be even uglier, since you could not then walk the tree
without perl being installed.
The cleanest solution is to integrate bsd.perl.mk into the perl5-base
pkg, and let those who have not upgraded perl yet use the runtime
definitions in <bsd.pkg.mk>.
the plugging of several memory leaks, fixes to the regular expression
engine, the addition of a Unicode character classes, better support for
64-bit platorms, and updates of many modules in the base Perl Library.
See perldelta.pod for more details.
Also update p5-Data-Dumper, p5-Devel-DProf, and p5-Devel-Peek to the
latest versions distributed with the perl-5.6.1 sources, and libperl to
5.6.1 to match the perl package.
included in the perl executable. We need this to make the upcoming
xerces-perl package working.
This hack should be made obsolete by gcc-3.0, which will have a libgcc.so.
See http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2001/04/07/0000.html for more details
(from commit log of perl5-current/Makefile):
* Interpreter cloning, threads, and concurrency
* Lexically scoped warning categories
* Unicode and UTF-8 support
* Support for interpolating named characters
* "our" declarations
* Support for strings represented as a vector of ordinals
* Improved Perl version numbering system
* New syntax for declaring subroutine attributes
* File and directory handles can be autovivified
* open() with more than two arguments
* 64-bit support
* Large file support
* Long doubles
* "more bits"
* Enhanced support for sort() subroutines
* C<sort $coderef @foo> allowed
* File globbing implemented internally
* POSIX character class syntax [: :] supported
* Improved C<qw//> operator
* pack() format 'Z' supported
* pack() format modifier '!' supported
* pack() and unpack() support counted strings
* Comments in pack() templates
* Weak references
* Binary numbers supported
* Lvalue subroutines
* Some arrows may be omitted in calls through references
* Boolean assignment operators are legal lvalues
* exists() is supported on subroutine names
* exists() and delete() are supported on array elements
* Pseudo-hashes work better
* Automatic flushing of output buffers
* Better diagnostics on meaningless filehandle operations
* Where possible, buffered data discarded from duped input filehandle
* eof() has the same old magic as <>
* binmode() can be used to set :crlf and :raw modes
* C<-T> filetest recognizes UTF-8 encoded files as "text"
* system(), backticks and pipe open now reflect exec() failure
* Improved diagnostics
* Diagnostics follow STDERR
* syswrite() ease-of-use
* Better syntax checks on parenthesized unary operators
* Bit operators support full native integer width
* Improved security features
* C<require> and C<do> may be overridden
* $^X variables may now have names longer than one character
* New variable $^C reflects C<-c> switch
* New variable $^V contains Perl version as a string
* Optional Y2K warnings
* Modules
* Pragmata
* dprofpp
* find2perl
* h2xs
* perlcc
* perldoc
* The Perl Debugger
* Simple sort() using { $a <=> $b } and the like are optimized
* Optimized assignments to lexical variables
* Faster subroutine calls
* -Dusethreads means something different
* New Configure flags
* Threadedness and 64-bitness now more daring
* Long Doubles
...
See 'perldoc perldelta' for a full list.
shared and static (NOPIC). Works with ELF on -current now.
NOPIC and SunOS support may be broken; someone else with the necessary
resources should test and possibly fix these cases.
- New, optional Makefile variable HOMEPAGE, specifies a URL for
the home page of the software if it has one.
- The value of HOMEPAGE is used to add a link from the
README.html files.
- pkglint updated to know about it. The "correct" location for
HOMEPAGE in the Makefile is after MAINTAINER, in that same
section.
(Or was it our patch only that introduced it -- then it
might need to be ${prefix} in patches/patch-aa instead).
In any case, this fix works (now gdbm is found if it is
already installed as a package).
