On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 12:16:44AM -0500, Ryan Schmidt said: >> Many of those tickets say "the guide should ..." and give not a lot of >> helpful information. Not all. Ryan's doc tickets are particularly >> helpful I should say. But as an example of ones that will linger: >> http://trac.macports.org/ticket/15784 Since the creator didn't give >> any >> directly usable information, it will be awhile before that gets acted >> on. > > The creator of the ticket may not know how to document the option. They > may have just seen it in a portfile or portgroup or somewhere and wondered > what it was, and noted it was not described in the guide. So it's right > for them to ask for it to be documented. > > For tickets that say the guide should document something, without saying > how it should be documented, maybe a message should be sent to > macports-dev asking if anyone knows what the option does. For example in > the case of 15784, I don't know what "perl5.use_module_build" is / does. > Hopefully someone with more experience with the perl modules does.
It changes how the perl5 port group does a build, specifically, by using perl's Module::Build instead of the usual Makefile.PL-style building. After the usual perl5.setup stuff, if you then add perl5.use_module_build, it should then do what's right to build the module with Module::Build (including depending on p5-module-build). Bryan _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
