Port builds perl5.8 even if already installed in the system
Ryan Schmidt
ryandesign at macports.org
Tue Oct 13 16:49:28 PDT 2009
On Oct 13, 2009, at 18:36, Pablo Ramirez wrote:
> I'm not sure if this behaviour is correct or exists a way to avoid it.
The behavior is correct. There is no way to avoid it.
> I've a OSX Snow Leopard installed and it includes a perl version
> 5.10.0, so when tried to install wine using "sudo port install
> wine", the first package for build was perl 5.8.9.
>
> Why port doesn't use the system's perl ?
For the reasons explained in the FAQ:
http://trac.macports.org/wiki/FAQ#syslibs
> This can be avoided with some argument for "install" ?
No.
> This is normal and strict ?
This is normal.
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