[enhancement] proposal - make all ports independent of which version of Perl is installed or the major one

[Joshua Root]

On 2012-5-16 11:01 , Bjarne D Mathiesen wrote:
> I'ld like to return to my orignal problem :
> 	making ports independent of which version of Perl is installed
> 	-or-
> 	the major one
> 
> Previously, the discussion rapidly deteriorated into quite other
> problems having not that much to do with the subject of the thread.
> 
> The points previously brought up are -of course- interesting in and of
> themselves, but not germane to the subject of the thread.
> 
> So - my question still stands : are you interested in me doing the basic
> hard work in making ports that are hardcoded to a specific Perl5 version
> independent of which version is installed or the major one ???

Your idea won't work right. If the path to an arbitrary perl is inserted
into any of the files installed by the port, the build is no longer
repeatable.

- Josh