[trimming libvirt-announce from cc] On 12/19/2012 04:03 PM, Jason Helfman wrote:
I will be committing this to the FreeBSD portstree this week. One item that has held this up for me was repeated build failures.
In looking through the code, I found out that perl was introduced as a build dependency, but I didn't see this noted anywhere in the notes or the spec files.
Perl has been a bootstrap requirement when building from git for some time now, although we have tried to keep away from making it a build requirement. Therefore, this looks like a regression, for not gracefully building the package from a tarball without perl present. What was the exact failure you hit, so we can correct that? Basically, any file that requires perl should be pre-built as part of 'make dist', so that building a tarball will not need perl. Likewise, any place where 'make check' runs a perl-based test, those tests should gracefully be skipped if perl is not present. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org