[107528] trunk/dports/textproc/intltool/Portfile

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Tue Jul 2 02:25:49 PDT 2013


On 2013-7-2 18:34 , Rainer Müller wrote:
> Before this change, intltool always used perl version 5.12 no matter
> what perl5 +perl5.XY you installed. Dependents were fixed by setting
> INTLTOOL_PERL to use ${prefix}/bin/perl5.12 to run intltool.
> 
> If I now install intltool +perl5.16, every dependent of intltool is
> broken. They are still hardcoded to use ${prefix}/bin/perl5.12 that may
> not even be installed anymore.
> 
> If I want to fix that, how would I know which perl to use? It has to be
> the same as intltool was installed with, but that can now be changed by
> the user with a variant.
> 
> So what am I supposed to do with the ports depending on intltool now?

I still think <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/30937#comment:13> would
be the best approach. Then you can just update intltool to use the new
default perl, no variants, no mess (well, less mess at least).

- Josh


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