is perl available from macports?

[Eric Hall]

On Sat, May 07, 2011 at 11:40:00PM -0500, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
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> On May 7, 2011, at 22:33, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
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> > On May 7, 2011, at 21:37, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:
> > 
> >> 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
> 
> Hmm, actually it installs fine on my PowerPC Leopard machine with perl5.12. It must be gcc-4.2 on Snow Leopard that it doesn't like. (Just telling p5-macosx-file to build with gcc-4.0 doesn't help though; perhaps perl5.12 itself needs to be built with gcc-4.0, but I'm not going to get into that right now.)
> 

	I believe the issues are with Snow Leopard and the changes
related to Carbon, i.e. it will not be a trivial fix.

	As well, the README for p5-macosx-file includes:

		If you are looking for psync, you may as well consider using
		rsync -E instead.




		-eric