[MacPorts] #30937: intltool @0.40.6_1 Enhancement to support perl5 variants

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#30937: intltool @0.40.6_1 Enhancement to support perl5 variants
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  Reporter:  ccarey@…     |      Owner:  macports-tickets@…
      Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
  Priority:  Normal       |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports        |    Version:  2.0.1
Resolution:               |   Keywords:  haspatch
      Port:  intltool     |
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Comment (by raimue@…):

 Replying to [comment:10 raimue@…]:
 > An alternative and maybe the better way to fix the issue would be to
 change `${prefix}/share/aclocal/intltool.m4` not to detect any `perl`
 binary, but use the path `${prefix}/bin/perl5.XY` that was used when
 building intltool. This would be a patch to the port intltool itself and
 would allow to use the variant approach originally suggested in this
 ticket.

 I looked into this approach, but unfortunately this would not remove all
 changes from the port using intltool. The distributed software might
 already ship a copy of the macros from intltool.m4 as a local version in
 aclocal.m4. In this case, it is still required to specify the
 `INTLTOOL_PERL` variable in the Portfile or, as an alternative, regenerate
 the aclocal.m4 using something like `autogen.sh` or `autoreconf`.

 Forcing a regenerate of the autotools related files is more intrusive than
 simply specifying the required environment variable, so I have to
 acknowledge that my proposal would not be the better fix.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/30937#comment:11>
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