Switching to Perl 5.16

[Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia]

On Jul 1, 2013, at 3:44 AM, Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org> wrote:

>>> Anything that depends on intltool and uses the standard autoconf macros
>>> to check for it also needs to be updated when intltool is,
>>> unfortunately. INTLTOOL_PERL needs to match the perl used by intltool,
>>> or the configure script complains.
>> 
>> I tried setting +perl5_16 as a variant in my full rebuild this weekend, and intltool was certainly the biggest thorn..
>> 
>> Is there any reason not to just do something like this:
>> 
>> ...
> 
> There's no guarantee that perl5 is linked to the same perl version as
> p5-xml-parser's dependency uses.


Oh, we want to support changing perl variants on the fly then…

So then is this the correct approach we should be taking:

Index: Portfile
===================================================================
--- Portfile	(revision 107485)
+++ Portfile	(working copy)
@@ -2,9 +2,11 @@
 # $Id$
 
 PortSystem      1.0
+PortGroup       perl5 1.0
 
 name            intltool
 version         0.50.2
+revision        1
 maintainers     nomaintainer
 categories      textproc gnome
 license         GPL-2+
@@ -31,13 +33,13 @@
 
 depends_build   port:gnome-common
 depends_lib     port:expat \
-                port:perl5.12 \
-                port:p5.12-xml-parser \
-                port:p5.12-getopt-long \
-                port:p5.12-pathtools \
-                port:p5.12-scalar-list-utils
+                port:perl5 \
+                port:p${perl5.major}-xml-parser \
+                port:p${perl5.major}-getopt-long \
+                port:p${perl5.major}-pathtools \
+                port:p${perl5.major}-scalar-list-utils
 
-configure.perl  ${prefix}/bin/perl5.12
+configure.perl  ${prefix}/bin/perl${perl5.major}
 
 test.run        yes
 test.target     check

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