is perl available from macports?

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Sat May 7 20:33:59 PDT 2011


On May 7, 2011, at 21:37, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:

> On May 7, 2011, at 6:30 PM, Tena Sakai wrote:
> 
>> I followed Ryan's suggestion and got perl5 installed fine,
>> but still can't execute psync.  It complains as to File.pm
>> missing.  I no longer think this is perl issue.  But googling
>> psync this and that doesn't get me anything tangible.  I am
>> looking for a different backup software.
> 
> Regarding psync, did you install p5-macosx-file?
> $ sudo port install p5-macosx-file

It does not appear to install with perl 5.10 or greater. (MacPorts default perl version increased to 5.12 recently, and Snow Leopard's version of perl is 5.10.) I have filed a bug report about this upstream:

https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=68017





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