is perl available from macports?

[Tena Sakai]

Hi,

I went to http://www.macports.org/ports.php and clicked on
a link "perl."  I am looking for macport port of perl.  But there
are too many p5-something.  What I am looking for is the
latest port of perl language.  Is there one available?  Can
you please tell me what I need to substitute in blank below?

   sudo port install ________

The reason why I want perl installed on my snow leopard:

I have a software called psync (also known as psyncX) and
it used to work on my old mac, but not
 anymore.  I have
versions 2.2.1 and 2.2.2 and they behave the same way.
Namely, when I start backup, it complains that a file File.pm
is missing.  I googled around and I read that the latest apple
port of perl misbehaves.  Suggestions I read are to download
perl and install it in /usr/local/bin (apple version is in /usr/bin,
I think).

So I downloaded a gzipped perl file and did
  ./Configure -Dprefix=/usr/local -de
  make
  make test
  sudo make install
and it puts a bunch of files into /usr/local/bin/bin.

I did it without -Dprefix flag as well, and the same thing happens.

I have no idea why this stupid behavior.

So, is perl available from macports?

Thank you.

Tena
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