On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Anthony de Almeida Lopes wrote:

> PREFER_NATIVE= perl
> PREFER_PKGSRC= no

PREFER_* is used by builtin.mk in the buildlink3.mk system.

You can not use it to choose the "perl" you want.

> i have the same version of perl that pkgsrc is trying into install but in
> /usr.
>
> i really don't pkgsrc duplicating packages i already have installed, is
> there another way to deal with this?

Sorry, we don't support using native perl as the pkgsrc perl.

This was discussed on tech-pkg in the "pkg_install/libnbcompat on OpenBSD"
thread in September 2003. (We need a pkgsrc FAQ.)

 Jeremy C. Reed

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