CVS commit: pkgsrc/lang/ghc88

["Masatake Daimon" <pho%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Module Name:    pkgsrc
Committed By:   pho
Date:           Mon Aug 24 17:48:51 UTC 2020

Modified Files:
        pkgsrc/lang/ghc88: Makefile

Log Message:
Add a note on the runtime dependency on perl; no actual changes


To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -u -r1.13 -r1.14 pkgsrc/lang/ghc88/Makefile

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Modified files:

Index: pkgsrc/lang/ghc88/Makefile
diff -u pkgsrc/lang/ghc88/Makefile:1.13 pkgsrc/lang/ghc88/Makefile:1.14
--- pkgsrc/lang/ghc88/Makefile:1.13     Mon Aug 24 17:23:11 2020
+++ pkgsrc/lang/ghc88/Makefile  Mon Aug 24 17:48:51 2020
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# $NetBSD: Makefile,v 1.13 2020/08/24 17:23:11 pho Exp $
+# $NetBSD: Makefile,v 1.14 2020/08/24 17:48:51 pho Exp $
 # -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Package metadata
 #
@@ -50,6 +50,12 @@ GNU_CONFIGURE=                       yes
 USE_GNU_CONFIGURE_HOST=                no
 USE_LIBTOOL=                   yes
 
+# TODO: Disable the splitter entirely so that we can drop the runtime
+# dependency on perl. The purpose of the splitter is to perform a dead
+# code elimination by breaking .o files into many pieces. This only
+# makes sense when linking executables statically, which is rarely
+# done these days.
+
 
 # -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Configuration