errors installing a port

[Harald Hanche-Olsen]

[Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> (2011-01-03 21:03:37 UTC)]

> 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

Indeed, that is almost certainly necessary. For this line appeared in
Thomas's original report:

:info:configure sh: /opt/local/bin/perl: No such file or directory

which indicates that something has gone awry with his perl installation.

- Harald