Updating Perl

[Mark Anderson]

One of the things I have done is made soft links in /opt/local/bin
from all the -5.10 programs to their real names; Tricks a lot of the
ports to just build without building perl5.8.  However, this can and
probably will mess a bunch of stuff up for you later and/or now.  All
l can say is it has worked well enough for me while I wait for the
fixes.

Mark

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 8:33 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
>
> On Sep 15, 2009, at 19:16, Mine wrote:
>
>> On 16 Sep 2009, at 00:47, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>>
>>
>>> At this point, a lot of ports in MacPorts require perl 5.8. Hopefully
>>> this situation will be sorted out soon and we will be using perl 5.10
>>> instead. The ticket:
>>>
>>> http://trac.macports.org/ticket/16830
>>
>> Does this mean that I can't or should not install Perl 5.10.1?
>>
>> It is available as a port, and I think I remember reading somewhere
>> on CPAN that installing 5.10.1 can live along side 5.8.8.
>> Is that correct?
>>
>> Will the .Profile doc created by MacPorts reflect the new install, so
>> 5.10.1 will be the defaul Perl?
>
> You can install the perl5.10 port if you want but ports that require perl
> will still use the perl5.8 port. The ticket I mentioned is the request to
> unify perl into a single port at version 5.10.1 that all ports can use.
>
>
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