p5-getopt-long and perl5.8 - activation error

[Michael Franz]

William,
I just re-ran the command.  It failed on the next 5 dependencies.  Each
time, I just re-ran until I got past the perl problems.

Thanks

Michael

On Feb 4, 2008 10:47 PM, William Davis <frstan at bellsouth.net> wrote:

>
> On Feb 4, 2008, at 6:58 PM, Michael Franz wrote:
>
> I am installing an application that somewhere along the line it has a
> dependency on both p5-getopt-long and perl5.8. I do not know how these two
> relate. All that I know at this point is that they conflict. I see that
> there is a perl5.10. Is this version to be used instead of perl5.8? If so,
> how do I get the dependent projects to use it?
>
> Here is the build/install log with the final error.
> ---> Fetching apache-ant
>
> ... many lines and ports excluded. I can send the complete log if
> necessary.
>
> ---> Fetching perl5.8 ---> Attempting to fetch perl-5.8.8.tar.bz2 from
> http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/ ---> Verifying checksum(s) for perl5.8 --->
> Extracting perl5.8 ---> Applying patches to perl5.8 ---> Configuring
> perl5.8 ---> Building perl5.8 with target all ---> Staging perl5.8 into
> destroot ---> Installing perl5.8 5.8.8_1+darwin_8 ---> Activating perl5.8
> 5.8.8_1+darwin_8 ---> Cleaning perl5.8 ---> Fetching p5-pathtools --->
> Attempting to fetch PathTools-3.27.tar.gz from
> http://ftp.ucr.ac.cr/Unix/CPAN/modules/by-module/../../authors/id/K/KW/KWILLIAMS/---> Verifying checksum(s) for p5-pathtools ---> Extracting p5-pathtools
> ---> Configuring p5-pathtools ---> Building p5-pathtools with target all
> ---> Staging p5-pathtools into destroot ---> Installing p5-pathtools
> 3.27_0 ---> Activating p5-pathtools 3.27_0 ---> Cleaning p5-pathtools --->
> Fetching p5-getopt-long ---> Attempting to fetch Getopt-Long-2.37.tar.gzfrom
> http://ftp.ucr.ac.cr/Unix/CPAN/modules/by-module/Getopt ---> Verifying
> checksum(s) for p5-getopt-long ---> Extracting p5-getopt-long --->
> Configuring p5-getopt-long ---> Building p5-getopt-long with target all --->
> Staging p5-getopt-long 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-getopt-long 2.37_0 ---> Activating
> p5-getopt-long 2.37_0 Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image
> error: /opt/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/Getopt/Long.pm is being used by the active
> perl5.8 port. Please deactivate this port first, or use the -f flag to
> force the activation.
>
> Michael
>
>
> Thats how perl works when adding so-to-speak extensions.
> Just do:
> sudo port -df activate p5-getopt-long
> as indicated by the error mesg above.
>
> William Davis
> frstanATbellsouthDOTnet
> Mac OS X.5.1 Darwin 9.1.0
> XQuartz 2.1.3 - (xorg-server 1.3.0-apple9)
> Mac Mini Intel Duo @ 1.86 GHz
>
> Mundus vult decepi, ego non
>
>
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