errors installing a port

[Ryan Schmidt]

Sending this reply back to the list.......

On Jan 3, 2011, at 17:33, Thomas Scofield wrote:

> On Jan 3, 2011, at 6:22 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
>> Er, right. Sorry, I forgot, /opt/local/bin/perl is provided by perl5.8 not perl5. Either way, it looks like /opt/local/bin/perl is supposed to be there. MacPorts claims it installed it as part of your perl5.8 port, as expected. Is it, in fact, there? (If not, deactivate and then re-activate perl5.8.) What happens when you run it? Here's a simple test you can try:
>> 
>> /opt/local/bin/perl -e 'print "hello\n"'
> 
> Here is more than you asked for:
> 
> Mac20952:notes scofield$ ls -l /opt/local/bin/perl*
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  admin        9 Aug 17 23:37 /opt/local/bin/perl5 -> perl5.8.9
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  admin        9 Aug 17 23:37 /opt/local/bin/perl5.8 -> perl5.8.9
> -rwxr-xr-x  2 root  admin  1297824 Aug 17 23:37 /opt/local/bin/perl5.8.9
> -rwxr-xr-x  2 root  admin    44765 Aug 17 23:37 /opt/local/bin/perlbug
> -rwxr-xr-x  2 root  admin    17965 Aug 17 23:37 /opt/local/bin/perlcc
> -rwxr-xr-x  2 root  admin      236 Aug 17 23:37 /opt/local/bin/perldoc
> -rwxr-xr-x  2 root  admin    12286 Aug 17 23:37 /opt/local/bin/perlivp
> -rwxr-xr-x  2 root  admin    44765 Aug 17 23:37 /opt/local/bin/perlthanks
> Mac20952:notes scofield$ /opt/local/bin/perl5 -e 'print "hello\n"'
> hello
> 
> I get the same "hello" printed if I exchange "perl5" with "perl5.8" or "perl5.8.9", as you might suspect.

Actually I wanted you to run /opt/local/bin/perl (not perl5, perl5.8 or perl5.8.9). But based on your "ls -l" it does not appear to exist.


> Also, in response to an earlier question you asked,
> 
> $ port installed perl5.8 perl5
> The following ports are currently installed:
>   perl5 @5.8.9_0 (active)
>   perl5.8 @5.8.9_3 (active)

Please deactivate and reactivate your perl5.8 port. Per your previous "port contents" output we saw that MacPorts believes it installed /opt/local/bin/perl via that port, but your "ls -l" shows it is not there. Deactivating and reactivating perl5.8 should fix that:

sudo port -f deactivate perl5.8
sudo port activate perl5.8

If that does not make /opt/local/bin/perl appear, then rebuild perl5.8:

sudo port -n upgrade --force perl5.8


> Nevertheless, you can gather from previous responses that I have the Apple-installed version of perl (5.10.0, found in /usr/bin) ahead of the MacPorts one in my path (i.e., /usr/bin takes precedence over /opt/local/bin).  Since it seems to be the newer version of perl, it seems like I would be silly (and perhaps would break other things in my system) to make it go the other way.

The usual setup is for /opt/local/bin to precede /usr/bin in your PATH. However, that's only for your convenience in using the shell; you're free to set up your PATH in any way that makes sense to you. MacPorts itself doesn't take your PATH into consideration when building ports.