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.

http://perldoc.perl.org/perlxs.html#NAME

(first google result for "perl xs")

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