errors installing a port

[Thomas Scofield]

> 
> You seem to be missing perl, though it is one of p5-locale-gettext's dependencies. Please clean p5-locale-gettext and try again:
> 
> sudo port clean p5-locale-gettext
> sudo port install p5-locale-gettext
> 
> If that fails the same way, verify perl5 and perl5.8 are installed and active:
> 
> port installed perl5.8 perl5
> 
> If they are, you could try reinstalling them:
> 
> sudo port -n upgrade --force perl5.8 perl5
> 


After cleaning p5-locale-gettext, the install command gave me this output

> install p5-locale-gettext
--->  Computing dependencies for p5-locale-gettext
--->  Fetching p5-locale-gettext
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for p5-locale-gettext
--->  Extracting p5-locale-gettext
--->  Applying patches to p5-locale-gettext
--->  Configuring p5-locale-gettext
Error: Target org.macports.configure returned: configure failure: shell command failed (see log for details)
Log for p5-locale-gettext is at: /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_perl_p5-locale-gettext/main.log
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
To report a bug, see <http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets>

Both perl5 and perl5.8 are there.  Is it relevant that at a terminal prompt I have

$ which perl
/usr/bin/perl

$ perl --version
This is perl, v5.10.0 built for darwin-thread-multi-2level



which, I presume, is the version of perl that Apple includes in OS 10.6.5, and


Thomas L. Scofield
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Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Calvin College
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