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

[Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia]

On Jul 1, 2013, at 11:00 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:

>>> and also ensure using the active_variants portgroup that the variant selected in each port is the same as the variant used in the intltool port?
>> 
>> Again, why would that be?
> 
> Because all ports using intltool are already required to add this line:
> 
> INTLTOOL_PERL=${prefix}/bin/perl5.12

Gah... That is stupid.  Why was this hackery propagated so far.  The real fix should be fixing that stupid autoconf macro and autoreconf-ing those ports.

>>> It was much more straightforward when the intltool port (and any other port that uses perl or perl modules) simply used perl 5.12.
>> 
>> Yes, straight forward so long as you used +perl5_12.  If you used a non-default perl, you were out of luck.
> 
> It should have worked, provided each port correctly specified that it wanted to use perl5.12. Granted there are many ports that do not correctly do this at present.

Well it didn't … and I'd rather fix it correctly than hack around the problem in other ports.

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