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

[Roger Hoover]

Thanks, James.

On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 4:47 PM, James E Keenan <jkeen at verizon.net> wrote:

>
> On Apr 4, 2008, at 7:06 PM, macports-users-request at lists.macosforge.orgwrote:
>
> > Message: 1
> > Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 13:30:09 -0400
> > From: William Davis <frstan at bellsouth.net>
> > Subject: Re: p5-test-harness conflict with perl5.8 @5.8.8_2
> > To: Roger Hoover <roger.hoover at gmail.com>
> > Cc: macports-users at lists.macosforge.org
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> s/pearl/perl/;
>
> I don't know enough about macports yet to comment on the macports-specific
> issues at hand.  But let me note that Perl 5.8.0 was released in July 2002
> and Test::Harness was one of its core modules.  Both Perl and Test::Harness
> have evolved considerably since then.  In particular, Test::Harness
> underwent a major change at version 2.64 -- precisely the version noted in
> the message above.  The current stable release of Perl is 5.10 (released
> December 2007) and the version of Test::Harness that accompanied Perl 5.10
> is basically the same as that in 2.64.
>
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