On Apr 4, 2014, at 18:05, Brandon Allbery wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> In this case, the dependency isn’t for more than just the perl executable, 
>> is it? The port does build and install perl modules, but it installs them in 
>> a pidgin-specific location, not in the versioned directory for whatever 
>> version of perl it found. And it doesn’t appear that the path to perl gets 
>> baked into any installed files. So maybe the perl version doesn’t matter 
>> after all.
> 
> If they're pure perl then that might work; if there's any XS involved then a 
> hard version dependency would be needed.
>  

How would we determine that?

I don’t know enough about perl to know what “XS” means.

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