freebsd-ports/lang/perl5/pkg-descr

Perl is a language that combines some of the features of C, sed, awk and
shell.  See the manual page for more hype.  There are also many books
published by O'Reilly & Assoc.  See pod/perlbook.pod for more
information.

WWW: http://perl.com/

- MarkM
Put SITEARCH and SITELIB paths in front of ARCHLIB and PRIVLIB in the @INC array. This takes care of the infamous problem of updating the packages already in the perl distribution. With this change, no tricks are any longer necessary for such p5 ports, except the usual tweaking of INSTALLDIRS in Makefile.PL. This last one can also be taken care of by an appropriate BSDPAN modifications, but until we have the `natural' @INC order in the 4.X base system perl, it is meaningless. Do not include iconv.h and do not link with libiconv. Iconv is not used by perl in any way currently, but it used to link it if found. Fix perl on freebsd/sparc64. PR: 33212 (iconv), 37605 (iconv), 38813 (sparc64) Reported by: Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com> (iconv), Martin Nilsson <martin@gneto.com> (iconv) Submitted by: jake (sparc64) 2002-06-02 21:22:25 +00:00			`Perl is a language that combines some of the features of C, sed, awk and`
			`shell. See the manual page for more hype. There are also many books`
			`published by O'Reilly & Assoc. See pod/perlbook.pod for more`
Upgrade this to perl5.6.0 for _knowledgeable_ folks in STABLE who really want it. This is still marked FORBIDDEN as there may be all sorts of horrible incompatabilities with the perl5 in "base", but folks who are willing to override this and experiment are welcome. Consider this to be only partially supported. I'll happily commit patches and fixes, but I don't want to answer too many questions. Sorry! 2001-03-22 15:17:46 +00:00			`information.`
Perl5 port by Mark Murray. People, beat this! Submitted by: Mark Murray <markm@freebsd.org> 1995-04-17 06:02:34 +00:00
Put SITEARCH and SITELIB paths in front of ARCHLIB and PRIVLIB in the @INC array. This takes care of the infamous problem of updating the packages already in the perl distribution. With this change, no tricks are any longer necessary for such p5 ports, except the usual tweaking of INSTALLDIRS in Makefile.PL. This last one can also be taken care of by an appropriate BSDPAN modifications, but until we have the `natural' @INC order in the 4.X base system perl, it is meaningless. Do not include iconv.h and do not link with libiconv. Iconv is not used by perl in any way currently, but it used to link it if found. Fix perl on freebsd/sparc64. PR: 33212 (iconv), 37605 (iconv), 38813 (sparc64) Reported by: Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com> (iconv), Martin Nilsson <martin@gneto.com> (iconv) Submitted by: jake (sparc64) 2002-06-02 21:22:25 +00:00			`WWW: http://perl.com/`

Corrected some spelling, and generally clarified the description. 1995-04-24 21:25:26 +00:00			`- MarkM`