errors installing a port

[Bradley Giesbrecht]

On Jan 3, 2011, at 2:18 PM, Thomas Scofield wrote:

>
>>
>> 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

Yes. Look here:
http://guide.macports.org/#installing.shell

> $ 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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> Department of Mathematics and Statistics
> Calvin College
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