picking a specific perl

[Bradley Giesbrecht]

On Oct 26, 2011, at 10:25 AM, Puneet Kishor wrote:

> Moving on, I want to install mod_perl2 which has variants for several different perl versions. So, how do I tell macports to install mod_perl2 with my perl5.14? Below is my experience so far
> 
> 	punkish at mumbai ~$sudo port install mod_perl2...
> ...
> Ok. Let's check out what went wrong...
> 
> 	punkish at mumbai ~$less /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_www_mod_perl2/mod_perl2/main.log 
> ...
> 	:debug:main Merging existing variants '+perl5_12' into variants
> 	:debug:main new fully merged portvariants: perl5_12 +
> 
> no, no, no... I want to use perl5.14 (which is also active). And, further down

Port mod_perl2 has perl5 as a dependency.
$ port rdeps mod_perl2

Port perl5 has perl version variants.
$ port variants perl5
$ port rdeps mod_perl2 +perl5_14


Try:
$ sudo port install mod_perl2  +perl5_14

or: 
$ sudo port install perl5 +perl5_14
$sudo port install mod_perl2


Regards,
Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla)