Compilation error.

[Mark Duling]

"Daniel J. Luke" <dluke at geeklair.net> on Wednesday, January 31, 2007 at
8:44 AM -0800 wrote:
>> Error: Target com.apple.configure returned: configure failure: shell
>> command "cd
>> "/opt/local/var/db/dports/build/ 
>> file._opt_local_var_db_dports_sources_rsync.rsync.opendarwin.org_dpupd 
>> ate_dports_perl_p5-locale-gettext/work/gettext-1.05" && /opt/local/ 
>> bin/perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor" returned error 127
>> Command output: sh: line 1: /opt/local/bin/perl: No such file or
>> directory
>
>before this happens, macports should try to install perl5.8, but it  
>doesn't because the port uses depends_lib instead of depends_lib- 
>append to specify its dependencies.

Daniel,

Can you elaborate?  I know to use depends_lib-append when using variants,
but where should it have been used (p5-locale-gettext?) and why in this
case?

Mark