Perl 5.8 dependency?

[Matrix Mole]

I don't know much about perl myself, so I'm just tossing out basic
troubleshooting with what little information I do know about the port
system itself.

You can run 'port dependents perl5.8' to find out what on your system
still needs it. I can see that perl5 has a perl5_10 variant, and also
that on my system perl5 depends upon perl5.8 directly. Looking into
the actual PortFile for perl5, the variant perl5_10 removes the
dependency on perl5.8 and replaces it with a dependency for perl5.10.
You may need to re-install perl5 with the +perl5_10 assuming no other
ports are dependent upon perl5.8 (again, checked with the dependents
command at the beginning of this paragraph).

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 11:33 AM, S.M. Protsman <protsman at mac.com> wrote:
> I'm running Macports Perl v5.10.1. I do not have a 5.8 variant installed
> (other than Apple's). When I ran an update this morning Macports tries to
> install 5.8.9_3, which of course, fails to install/activate. I'm not certain
> what is dependent upon 5.8.9 but would rather see everything bumped to 5.10.
> Suggestions?
>
> @naiad ~] sw_vers
> ProductName:    Mac OS X
> ProductVersion: 10.5.8
> BuildVersion:   9L30
>
> Output:
>
> --->  Updating the ports tree
> --->  Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync
> MacPorts base version 1.8.2 installed,
> MacPorts base version 1.8.2 downloaded.
> --->  MacPorts base is already the latest version
>
> The ports tree has been updated. To upgrade your installed ports, you should
> run
>  port upgrade outdated
> --->  Computing dependencies for m4
> --->  Fetching m4
> --->  Attempting to fetch m4-1.4.14.tar.bz2 from
> http://distfiles.macports.org/m4
> --->  Attempting to fetch m4-1.4.14.tar.bz2 from
> ftp://ftp.dti.ad.jp/pub/GNU/m4
> --->  Verifying checksum(s) for m4
> --->  Extracting m4
> --->  Configuring m4
> --->  Building m4
> --->  Staging m4 into destroot
> --->  Deactivating m4 @1.4.13_0
> --->  Computing dependencies for m4
> --->  Installing m4 @1.4.14_0
> --->  Activating m4 @1.4.14_0
> --->  Cleaning m4
> --->  Computing dependencies for perl5.8
> --->  Fetching perl5.8
> --->  Attempting to fetch perl-5.8.9.tar.bz2 from http://www.cpan.org/src/
> --->  Verifying checksum(s) for perl5.8
> --->  Extracting perl5.8
> --->  Applying patches to perl5.8
> --->  Configuring perl5.8
> --->  Building perl5.8
> --->  Staging perl5.8 into destroot
> --->  Installing perl5.8 @5.8.9_3
> --->  Activating perl5.8 @5.8.9_3
> Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error:
> /opt/local/bin/a2p is being used by the active perl5.10 port.  Please
> deactivate this port first, or use 'port -f activate perl5.8' to force the
> activation.
> Error: Problem while installing perl5.8
> Before reporting a bug, first run the command again with the -d flag to get
> complete output.
>
>
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