<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Ryan Schmidt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ryandesign@macports.org" target="_blank">ryandesign@macports.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":1zn" class="" style="overflow:hidden">Check my work, but it looks like there aren't any ports that depend on p5.8 or p5.10 versions of modules (other than other p5.8 and p5.10 modules of course):<br>
</div></blockquote></div><br>This caused me to check something and find a potential (but perhaps not practical) issue:<br><br><div class="gmail_extra"> pyanfar:10007 Z$ port echo rdepof:ghc | grep perl</div><div class="gmail_extra">
perl5</div><div class="gmail_extra"> perl5.16</div><div><br></div><div>One of the reasons perl5.8 was still in the tree is that if you use ghc -fvia-C, it uses a perl script which, last I checked, does not work in perl 5.10 and later; the above dependency output looks like someone replaced the hard dependency with one on the perl5 port and thereby whatever default Perl is selected via variants.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Practically, however, -fvia-C has been deprecated for many years and is only retained for porting ghc to other platforms. Also, the Perl script in question does essentially nothing on MacPorts supported platforms (I think the only platforms it does anything on are SPARC and Alpha); I think it fails "safely" elsewhere, so the version restriction is not relevant. I would have to verify this, though.</div>
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