On 2014-4-5 10:46 , Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > 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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