Duplicate Perl 5.8 libraries

Rainer Müller raimue at macports.org
Sun Mar 8 10:22:46 PDT 2009


Adam Byrtek wrote:
> When playing with dependencies for a new port that requires certain
> CPAN libraries I found out that there are multiple p5 ports containing
> libraries already included in perl5.8. I had this problem with the
> following ports:
> p5-time-hires
> p5-text-balanced
> p5-digest-md5

Please see the recent thread "perl5.8 fixup" where exactly this problem
is currently discussed.

Subject: perl5.8 fixup
From: Bradley Giesbrecht
Date: Tue Mar 3 16:22:12 PST 2009
Archive:
http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2009-March/007594.html

As of now, the only way to solve this is to use -f on activation.

Rainer


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