From 070903661b5c0c340ab04b21bcafeec301d4b167 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark Linimon Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2007 00:30:31 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Document bsd.perl.mk and related changes. Submitted by: gabor Sponsored by: Google Summer of Code 2007 --- CHANGES | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES index 324caa5f73b9..f563c3a3c7fa 100644 --- a/CHANGES +++ b/CHANGES @@ -10,6 +10,22 @@ in the release notes. All ports committers are allowed to commit to this file. +20070908: +AUTHOR: gabor@FreeBSD.org, linimon@FreeBSD.org + + * The Perl-related code parts have been extracted from bsd.port.mk to + bsd.perl.mk. This includes the user-settable knobs (e.g. USE_PERL5) + and infrastructure parts of the code, like default targets. The new + code is designed to be conditionally included based on either + USE_PERL5_*, PERL_CONFIGURE, or PERL_MODBUILD being set. However, + some of the default settings remain in bsd.port.mk while we make + sure that all ports comply with this. + + * A convenient version handling has been implemented for Perl-related + knobs. With this new feature one can require a minimal, a maximal or an + exact version, that the given port needs. For the full description and + some examples, please see the documentation in bsd.perl.mk. + 20070804: AUTHOR: gabor@FreeBSD.org The following functional changes were made to bsd.*.mk and to