is perl available from macports?

[Ulrich Wienands]

Tena, be aware that OS X has Perl pre installed. On my machine (10.4.11):


[the-cube:/usr/local/bin] uli% perl -v

This is perl, v5.8.6 built for darwin-thread-multi-2level
(with 5 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)

Copyright 1987-2004, Larry Wall
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2011/5/4, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org>:
>
> 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.
>
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