[MacPorts] #33105: help2man: error: perl module Locale::gettext required

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#33105: help2man: error: perl module Locale::gettext required
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 Reporter:  raramayo@…          |       Owner:  macports-tickets@…                   
     Type:  defect              |      Status:  new                                  
 Priority:  Normal              |   Milestone:                                       
Component:  ports               |     Version:  2.0.3                                
 Keywords:                      |        Port:  help2man                             
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Comment(by raramayo@…):

 Replying to [comment:5 ecronin@…]:
 > {{{
 > :debug:main perl5.12 5.12.3_3 exists in the ports tree
 > :debug:main perl5.12 5.12.3_3 +threads is the latest installed
 > :debug:main perl5.12 5.12.3_3 +threads is active
 > }}}
 >
 > +threads is not the default for perl5.12, and w/ or w/o threads changes
 the directory name where perl looks for modules and where modules get
 installed (see source:trunk/dports/lang/perl5.12/Portfile#L82), so I would
 guess that you initially installed perl5.12 and p5.12-locale-gettext, and
 then installed perl5.12 +threads.  Uninstalling p5.12-local-gettext and
 rebuilding/installing it with perl5.12 +threads active put the modules
 where your current perl is looking for it.

 You are right. In this machine I did just that. I forgot to install
 +threads and then uninstalled everything, all perl ports including perl
 itself and then started clean with +threads. But somehow, I run into
 help2man problems here and this was the only machine that gave me this
 problem...

 I guess somehow I assumed that uninstalling and cleaning and then re-
 installing was going to eliminate this kind of problems. Obviously I must
 have messed up at some point...

 >
 > This situation is bad/confusing enough, but it just occurred to me that
 as stands this is unfixable when installing using pre-built packages-- the
 buildbot builds p5.12-locale-gettext against perl5.12 -threads, which
 contains different and incompatible files from p5.12-locale-gettext built
 against perl5.12 +threads, even though both have identical
 names/versions/variants for p5.12-locale-gettext...  You lucked out
 because there is only an x86_64 package for p5.12-locale-gettext on
 packages.macports.org, but if someone installed p5.12-locale-
 gettext-1.50.0_6.darwin_10.x86_64.tbz2 on top of perl5.12 +threads perl
 would not see the module despite macports thinking everything was fine

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/33105#comment:6>
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