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List:       freebsd-ports
Subject:    Re: USES vs BUILD_DEPENDS
From:       Daniel Eischen <deischen () freebsd ! org>
Date:       2015-03-30 16:28:49
Message-ID: Pine.GSO.4.64.1503301228090.19132 () sea ! ntplx ! net
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On Mon, 30 Mar 2015, Mathieu Arnold wrote:

> +--On 29 mars 2015 12:41:21 -0400 Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>
> wrote:
> | I have a port which needs pod2man just to build the man file
> | during installation.  Why do I need USES= pod2man:perl5 just to
> | build the port?  It doesn't seem feasible to use BUILD_DEPENDS
> | because there is no generic perl5 port.
>
> You need:
> USES=perl5
> USE_PERL5=build
>
> Because that's the right way to say you need Perl to build your port.

Ok, thanks!  I'll try that.

-- 
DE
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