On Tue, 13 Aug 2019 20:39:01 +0100 James Le Cuirot <[email protected]> wrote:
> Unfortunately there's currently no way to say that the versions of a > package across BDEPEND, DEPEND, and RDEPEND must be (roughly?) equal so > there's nothing to stop an ancient Perl in / building a module for a > newer Perl in ROOT but that's a problem that goes far beyond Perl. > Cross-compiling Perl modules is still a bit of a car crash anyway. I'd imagine that for CC, you'd need all perl modules installed to BDEPEND _and_ DEPEND _AND_ RDEPEND, Because the configure stage runs Makefile.PL on the host perl, and it checks the existence of all "runtime" and "compile time" dependencies itself, and it does this by *loading* them into the host perl. Failure to load them on the host perl produces lots of warnings in the best of cases, and errors in the worst of cases.
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