Ticket #16830: perl5.Portfile.diff

Portfile

@@ -8 +8 @@
 categories      lang
 platforms       darwin freebsd linux
 maintainers     ricci mcalhoun
-#description     Perl 5 - Practical Extraction and Report Language (maintenance release)
+depends_lib     port:perl5.8
 
-#long_description \
-#    Perl is a general-purpose programming language originally developed \
-#    for text manipulation and now used for a wide range of tasks including \
-#    system administration, web development, network programming, GUI \
-#    development, and more.
+description         Virtual port for the latest perl 5.x 
+long_description    ${description}
 
-#distname        perl-${version}
-#use_bzip2       yes
 homepage        http://www.perl.org/
-#master_sites    http://www.cpan.org/src/
+master_sites    
+distfiles
 
-#checksums        \
-#    md5     1cb52a76ce77fa300218da96577793ec \
-#    sha1    19843b5a7585cf35d96c07dbcd419bbdd5813617 \
-#    rmd160  680004238d626ec985075e1b4519b7f0b34f57e5
-
-#post-patch {
-#    reinplace "s|/opt/local|${prefix}|g" ${worksrcpath}/Configure
-#    # Ensure that the ld value set in configure.args is used
-#    reinplace "s|ld='cc';||" ${worksrcpath}/hints/darwin.sh
-#}
-
-#configure.env       LC_ALL=C
-#configure.cmd       /bin/sh Configure
-#configure.pre_args
-#configure.args \
-#    -des \
-#    -D prefix='${prefix}' \
-#    -D cppflags="\${CPPFLAGS}" \
-#    -D ldflags="\${LDFLAGS}" \
-#    -D vendorprefix='${prefix}' \
-#    -D man3ext='3pm' \
-#    -D cc=\${CC} \
-#    -D ld=\${CC}
-
-#set exclude_libs {bind gdbm db}
-
-#post-patch {
-#    foreach lib ${exclude_libs} {
-#        configure.args-append  -U i_${lib}
-#        reinplace "s|\\(libswanted=.*\\)${lib} *\\(.*\\)|\\1\\2|" ${worksrcpath}/Configure
-#    }
-#}
-
 universal_variant   no
 
-#test.run            yes
-
-#post-destroot {
-#    ln -s perl${version} ${destroot}${prefix}/bin/$name
-#}
-
-#variant threads description {Build with thread support} {
-#    configure.args-append   -Dusethreads
-#}
-
-#variant shared description {Build shared perl library} {
-#    configure.args-append   -Duseshrplib
-#}
-
-#variant gdbm description {Build with gdbm support} {
-#    depends_lib-append port:gdbm
-#    set exclude_libs [ldelete ${exclude_libs} gdbm]
-#}
-
-#variant db description {Build with Berkeley Data Base support} {
-#    depends_lib-append port:db47
-#    set exclude_libs [ldelete ${exclude_libs} db]
-    
-#    post-patch {
-#        reinplace "s|${prefix}/include|${prefix}/include ${prefix}/include/db47|g" ${worksrcpath}/Configure
-#        reinplace "s|${prefix}/lib|${prefix}/lib ${prefix}/lib/db47|g" ${worksrcpath}/Configure
-#    }
-#}
-
-#livecheck.type  regex
-#livecheck.url   http://www.cpan.org/src
-#livecheck.regex {perl-(5\.8\.\d)\.}
-
-
-#######################################################
-fetch {}
-checksum {}
-extract {}
 use_configure       no
 build {}
-description Placeholder port. See http://trac.macports.org/ticket/16830
-long_description ${description}
-destroot {
-    xinstall -d ${destroot}${prefix}/share/doc/${name}
-    system "echo ${long_description} > ${destroot}${prefix}/share/doc/${name}/README.txt"
+destroot {}
+
+variant perl5_10 description { use perl 5.10 instead of perl 5.8 } {
+    depends_lib-delete  port:perl5.8
+    depends_lib-append  port:perl5.10
+
+    version 5.10
 }
-archive {}
-livecheck.type      none
-master_sites
-depends_lib port:perl5.8
 
 post-destroot {
+## XYZZY: add check that the files on both sides of the link do and do not exist:
     ln -s perl${version} ${destroot}${prefix}/bin/$name
 }
-#######################################################
+livecheck.type     none