p5-test-harness conflict with perl5.8 @5.8.8_2

[William Davis]

On Apr 4, 2008, at 12:58 PM, Roger Hoover wrote:

> After upgrading my perl5.8 port to 5.8.8_2, I'm getting a conflict  
> with the p5-test-harness port.  Ultimately, I'm trying to install p5- 
> dbi but the dependency chain breaks on p5-test-harness.  Anyone else  
> having this problem?
>
> sudo port install p5-test-harness
> --->  Fetching p5-test-harness
> --->  Verifying checksum(s) for p5-test-harness
> --->  Extracting p5-test-harness
> --->  Configuring p5-test-harness
> --->  Building p5-test-harness with target all
> --->  Staging p5-test-harness into destroot
> You must install or activate this package with '-f' (force) as it  
> needs to overwrite files installed by the perl5.8 port
> --->  Installing p5-test-harness 2.64_1
> --->  Activating p5-test-harness 2.64_1
> Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error: /opt/ 
> local/bin/prove is being used by the active perl5.8 port.  Please  
> deactivate this port first, or use the -f flag to force the  
> activation.
> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
>
>

sudo port -df activate p5-test-harness

that will "force" the activation. This is normal for pearl. There are  
a fair number of pearl modules that work this way.



William Davis
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