Perl 5.8.8 already present on Leopard; can I make a "dummy" Portfile?

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Dec 28, 2008, at 4:28 PM, nicerobot wrote:
> There's one fairly significant oversight

nope, it's a considered design decision.

> with respect to doing this with
> perl. Modules. Having multiple instances of the same version of  
> perl5 that
> are built with different @INC is a complete mess. At the very least,  
> port
> should configure itself to (or ask if it should) use the same  
> configuration
> as the existing perl installation.


This would probably be a bad idea.

See also:

http://trac.macports.org/wiki/FAQ#WillMacPortslinktosystemlibrariesratherthanitsown
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