cpanp error

[Shawn Protsman]

On Aug 5, 2009, at 2:37 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> On Aug 5, 2009, at 15:53, Shawn Protsman wrote:
>
>> <snip>
>> I've removed everything else (in an attempt to clean it up and  
>> reinstall 5.10) but 5.8.9 has dependencies:
>>
>> @naiad /opt/local/bin] sudo port uninstall perl5.8 @5.8.9_3
>> --->  Unable to uninstall perl5.8 5.8.9_3, the following ports  
>> depend on it:
>> --->  	p5-error
>> --->  	git-core
>> --->  	ghc
>> Error: port uninstall failed: Please uninstall the ports that  
>> depend on perl5.8 first.
>>
>> Suggestions?
>
> If you have the current version of ports ("sudo port sync" gets you  
> them), p5-error and git-core do not depend on perl5.8 but on perl5,  
> which means that either perl5.8 or perl5.10 would work. You should  
> be able to forcibly uninstall them (port -f uninstall p5-error git- 
> core) and then reinstall them to get them to correctly record their  
> dependencies on perl5.
>
> ghc requires perl5.8. A comment in that portfile reads "since  
> correctly handling whitespace is critical, only perl 5.8 is known to  
> work reliably." If you need more information than that you could ask  
> ghc's maintainer or the developers of ghc.

Uhg. I wish you were right but git-core wants to install perl5.8:

@naiad ~] sudo port -f uninstall p5-error git-core perl5.8
--->  Unable to uninstall p5-error 0.17015_0, the following ports  
depend on it:
--->  	git-core
Warning: Uninstall forced.  Proceeding despite dependencies.
--->  Deactivating p5-error @0.17015_0
--->  Uninstalling p5-error @0.17015_0
--->  Deactivating git-core @1.6.4_0+doc
--->  Uninstalling git-core @1.6.4_0+doc
--->  Deactivating perl5.8 @5.8.9_3
--->  Uninstalling perl5.8 @5.8.9_3

@naiad ~] sudo port install git-core
--->  Fetching perl5.8
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for perl5.8
--->  Extracting perl5.8
--->  Applying patches to perl5.8
--->  Configuring perl5.8
--->  Building perl5.8
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