First port installation fails

[Weissmann Markus]

On 12.12.2007, at 13:21, Richard Tobin wrote:

> I installed MacPorts-1.5.0.pkg, did a self-update, then did
>
>   port install firefox-x11
>
> After installing several ports, it aborted with:
>
> --->  Activating p5-pathtools 3.25_0
> Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error: /opt/ 
> local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/darwin-2level/auto/Cwd/Cwd.bs is being used  
> by the active perl5.8 port.  Please deactivate this port first, or  
> use the -f flag to force the activation.
> Error: The following dependencies failed to build: gnome-icon-theme  
> icon-naming-utils p5-getopt-long p5-pathtools p5-xml-simple p5-test- 
> simple p5-test-harness p5-xml-namespacesupport p5-xml-sax p5-xml- 
> parser gnome-vfs dbus docbook-xml-4.1.2 xmlcatmgr libxml2 xmlto  
> docbook-xml-4.2 docbook-xsl getopt libxslt dbus-glib gconf gtk2 atk  
> gtk-doc scrollkeeper docbook-xml docbook-xml-4.3 docbook-xml-4.4  
> docbook-xml-4.5 jpeg pango Xft2 xorg-xproto xorg-util-macros tiff  
> intltool orbit2 libidl gnome-mime-data howl neon openssl zip
> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
>
> Presumably this should not happen.
>
> There was no /opt/local before I started, so it can't be some stale
> port.
>


Then it probably is a bug -- I've cc'ed Daniel, he probably knows  
best what this could be as he is the maintainer of "p5-pathtools".


Regards,

-Markus

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Dipl. Inf. (FH) Markus W. Weissmann
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