Perl5.12 Fails to build

Sat Apr 20 10:17:32 PDT 2013

On Apr 20, 2013, at 12:25 PM, Rodolfo Aramayo <raramayo at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am having trouble building Perl5.12 (i.e., perl5.12-5.12.4_2+universal.darwin_10.i386-x86_64.tbz2) in MacOS 10.6 server machines
> Log file is attached
> Am I the only one with this trouble?

No. This is a known issue.

https://trac.macports.org/ticket/36438 (main ticket)
https://trac.macports.org/ticket/36444
https://trac.macports.org/ticket/36900
https://trac.macports.org/ticket/38858
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.macports.user/31863

If you're not explicitly building perl5.12 using MacPorts' GCC, you can work around the issue by force-deactivating libstdcxx for the duration of the upgrade.

    sudo port -f deactivate libstdcxx
    sudo port upgrade perl5.12
    sudo port activate libstdcxx

vq