First port installation fails

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Dec 12, 2007, at 08:23, Daniel J. Luke wrote:

> On Dec 12, 2007, at 7:26 AM, Weissmann Markus wrote:
>
>>> 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.
>>
>> 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".
>
> The p5-pathtools needs to overwrite the older pathtools that come  
> with perl5.8 in order to be found (perl searches the vendor  
> location last by default, and the perl community consensus is that  
> this is the appropriate way to upgrade modules that ship with perl).
>
> To that end, p5-pathtools would have printed out:
>
> "You must install or activate this package with '-f' (force) as it  
> needs to overwrite files installed by the perl5.8 port"
>
> You can run `sudo port -f install p5-pathtools` and then try  
> installing firefox-x11 again and it should work.

So that this doesn't force a rebuild of perl5.8 as well, you should  
recommend

sudo port -nf install p5-pathtools

instead.