Re: Failures in pkgsrc-wip

[Hauke Fath <hf%spg.tu-darmstadt.de@localhost>]

Am 24.04.2005 um 13:59 Uhr +0200 schrieb Krister Walfridsson:
> > Does anyone know of a better way to obtain the output of 'perl
> > -MExtUtils::Embed -e ldopts'?
>
> The Makefile is parsed a number of times during a build.

Ahh -- I didn't think of that!

> The first
> time it only tries to find out the dependencies so that they can
> be installed, so PERL_LDOPTS is not needed at this point; the file
> will be parsed again after all dependencies (including perl) have
> been installed.
>
> So the only issue is the annoying (but harmless) error message when
> perl is not installed.  The easiest way to get rid of it is to
> send it to /dev/null, but it is probably better to use a construct
> like:
>
>   .include "../../mk/bsd.prefs.mk"
>   .if (exists(${PERL5})
>   PERL_LDOPTS!=           eval "${PERL5} -MExtUtils::Embed -e ldopts"
>   .endif

Checked in.

Thanks for the clue,

        hauke

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