is perl available from macports?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On May 4, 2011, at 03:02, Tena Sakai wrote:

> 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 ________

sudo port install perl5


> 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.

Before continuing with MacPorts, you will want to remove perl from /usr/local and anything else you installed there; things installed there will interfere with MacPorts in unpredictable ways.