doxygen/gdbm license conflict

[Joshua Root]

On 2013-3-19 03:35 , Rainer Müller wrote:
> On 2013-03-16 07:06, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
>> I'd like to mark perl5 as license_noconflict in doxygen, since its dependency gdbm is blocking distribution of doxygen packages. I think perl is only used for running some build scripts, but I'm not really sure. Can someone with a clue take a look?
> 
> The depspec in depends_build is bin:perl:perl5, so on a usual
> installation this does not pin a specific version of perl and
> /usr/bin/perl will satisfy this dependency. Probably the intention of
> the Portfile author was that perl is only required at build time for the
> tmake script without further dependencies.
> 
> I took a quick view into the source code; there is no linking with perl
> in the Makefiles, so adding "license_noconflict perl5" to doxygen would
> be fine by me.

Do we actually need gdbm support in perl anyway? I notice it's not in
perl5.8 with default variants. Does anything require it?

- Josh