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

[Joshua Root]

On 2012-5-28 18:15 , Bjarne D Mathiesen wrote:
> Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:
>>
>> I will submit a new patch replacing ${perl5.major} with p5.14.
>>
> 
> And I do know that using ${perl5.major} makes their builds unrepeatable
> according to some, but it only breaks if you switch version in perl5 -
> otherwise you'll get the same each and every time you build.

Repeatable doesn't mean *you* can reproduce the same build, it means
someone else can reproduce it without knowing anything about your
system. Among other things, non-repeatable builds are incompatible with
binary distribution.

- Josh