USES vs BUILD_DEPENDS

[Daniel Eischen]

On Mon, 30 Mar 2015, Mathieu Arnold wrote:

> +--On 29 mars 2015 12:41:21 -0400 Daniel Eischen <deischen at freebsd.org>
> wrote:
> | I have a port which needs pod2man just to build the man file
> | during installation.  Why do I need USES= pod2man:perl5 just to
> | build the port?  It doesn't seem feasible to use BUILD_DEPENDS
> | because there is no generic perl5 port.
>
> You need:
> USES=perl5
> USE_PERL5=build
>
> Because that's the right way to say you need Perl to build your port.

Ok, thanks!  I'll try that.

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DE