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authorpho <pho@pkgsrc.org>2020-08-24 17:48:51 +0000
committerpho <pho@pkgsrc.org>2020-08-24 17:48:51 +0000
commit9a81c159d27bca1f92da0f8858f616b8d101b4e9 (patch)
tree64dbb9d68c0002aed61d98df94bbd8281d559980 /lang/ghc88/Makefile
parent3ea71a0f5125102d9d623560c2d3f755270ae388 (diff)
downloadpkgsrc-9a81c159d27bca1f92da0f8858f616b8d101b4e9.tar.gz
Add a note on the runtime dependency on perl; no actual changes
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diff --git a/lang/ghc88/Makefile b/lang/ghc88/Makefile
index d138fc550be..9421c4b7c76 100644
--- a/lang/ghc88/Makefile
+++ b/lang/ghc88/Makefile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# $NetBSD: Makefile,v 1.13 2020/08/24 17:23:11 pho Exp $
+# $NetBSD: Makefile,v 1.14 2020/08/24 17:48:51 pho Exp $
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Package metadata
#
@@ -50,6 +50,12 @@ GNU_CONFIGURE= yes
USE_GNU_CONFIGURE_HOST= no
USE_LIBTOOL= yes
+# TODO: Disable the splitter entirely so that we can drop the runtime
+# dependency on perl. The purpose of the splitter is to perform a dead
+# code elimination by breaking .o files into many pieces. This only
+# makes sense when linking executables statically, which is rarely
+# done these days.
+
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Configuration