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From: Kim Scarborough <sluggo@unknown.nu>
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Subject: Why does wget need perl?
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>Number:         57135
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       Why does wget need perl?
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    sf
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Sep 23 11:30:16 PDT 2003
>Closed-Date:    Wed Sep 24 02:57:02 PDT 2003
>Last-Modified:  Wed Sep 24 02:57:02 PDT 2003
>Originator:     Kim Scarborough
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD moose.uchicago.edu 5.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE #0: Thu Jun 5 02:55:42 GMT 2003 root@wv1u.btc.adaptec.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386


	
>Description:
The ftp/wget port requires perl, and I don't see why. I commented out the
"USE_PERL5_BUILD" line in the Makefile on a system without perl and it built
with no problems.

If perl is wanted for some obscure reason, that line should be put in a conditional;
otherwise, it should be removed completely.


>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
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>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-ports-bugs->sf 
Responsible-Changed-By: erwin 
Responsible-Changed-When: Tue Sep 23 23:29:53 PDT 2003 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Over to maintainer 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=57135 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: sf 
State-Changed-When: Wed Sep 24 02:56:34 PDT 2003 
State-Changed-Why:  
perl is used to build manpage. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=57135 
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