• Perl

This page describes stuff relating to perl and p5-* ports in tree for perl@

perl@ PRs

Gnats PR

Current list of people in perl@

committers

• az
• bapt
• chinsan
• clsung
• crees
• culot
• dinoex
• ehaupt
• gabor
• jadawin
• kuriyama
• lbr
• leeym
• lth
• mat
• miwi
• mm
• pgollucci
• sahil
• sem
• skreuzer
• skv
• sunpoet
• swills
• tobez
• wen

non committers

• Aliaksandr Zahatski <zahatski@gmail.com> [perl 6 related]

How to commit for perl@?

Actually, it's not definitive, but tobez@ submitted this idea:

1. the committer made at least 10 commits for unique perl@-maintained port
2. the committer maintains at least 10 p5-ports on his own

IRC

You can find some of perl@ people on IRC MagNet. Feel free to connect and ask questions or discuss a future of perl ports on FreeBSD.

Tips and Tricks

Test Dependencies

I (tobez@) found it useful recently to add TEST_DEPENDS clause to the ports I commit to. It has exactly the same syntax as old good BUILD_DEPENDS and RUN_DEPENDS (which almost always means listing versioned package dependencies). It is not currently supported in any way by bsd.{port,perl}.mk framework, and portlint will produce a warning (which I happily ignore) about it. But it is immediately useful:

1. It is clear at a glance what ports needs to be installed in order for make test to have a chance to be successful.
2. In the future someone might implement support for it in the ports framework.
3. My own pre-commit test scripts understand this clause, which increases my productivity quite a bit.

So, in brief, I'd like to see this practice expanding.

I (swills@) have been adding quite a few TEST_DEPENDS and have added some support to the ports tinderbox for TEST_DEPENDS as well. There is also a patch:

• http://people.freebsd.org/~swills/bsd.perl.mk_add_test.diff.txt

which adds some logic for it. With this patch, you can add:

• export USE_PERL_TEST=yes

to your tinderbox/scripts/etc/env/GLOBAL file and tinderbox will run the tests for you.

You may also want this patch:

• http://people.freebsd.org/~swills/tinderbox_test_deps_add_run_deps.diff

As it makes tinderbox add the RUN_DEPENDS to the TEST_DEPENDS.

If you wish to make tinderbox fail the build if the tests fail, you can change this line of tinderbox/scripts/lib/buildscript:

• /pnohang $TIMEOUT /tmp/make.log5 ${pkgname} make -k regression-test

to this:

• /pnohang $TIMEOUT /tmp/make.log5 ${pkgname} make regression-test || cleanup 5

I've been using this to test and fix all the p5- ports that don't pass their tests, but there are many and help is welcome. I hope to add support to ports proper for testing eventually.

CPAN shortcut for expanding author/id/X/XX/XXX

I (az@) found it useful recently to add CPAN:CPANID clause to the ports I commit to.

It happened that CPAN modules /by-module symlink is no longer available for new modules versions. CPAN /modules/by-author is still available but maybe it will have the same fate. Therefore to properly use the only correct method of /author/id.

Examples of replacement:

In this examples CPAN:JPEACOCK will be expanded to authors/id/J/JPEACOCK and this magic works only while you using CPAN keywork inside MASTER_SITES. I think this is a transitional solution, and when all p5-ports will have the current syntax, I would like to see such syntax: <CPAN>/<AUTHORID>/<ANYTHING INSIDE AUTOR DIRECTORY>.

Removing SITE_PERL from DEPENDS

See http://wiki.freebsd.org/PortsLongtermTargets#Use_of_SITE_PERL_in_dependencies

Remove unnecessary dependencies (Perl core modules) from {BUILD|RUN|TEST}_DEPENDS

See http://wiki.freebsd.org/PortsLongtermTargets#Remove_unnecessary_dependencies_.28Perl_core_modules.29_from_.7BBUILD.7CRUN.7CTEST.7D_DEPENDS