weirdness setting default perl version

Bradley Giesbrecht pixilla at macports.org
Thu Jun 27 11:04:27 PDT 2013


On Jun 27, 2013, at 10:51 AM, Puneet Kishor wrote:

> 	$ which perl
> 	/opt/local/bin/perl
> 	$ perl -v
> 
> 	This is perl 5, version 12, subversion 4 (v5.12.4) built for darwin-thread-multi-2level
> 	..
> 
> 	$ port installed perl5.14
> 	The following ports are currently installed:
> 	  perl5.14 @5.14.2_1
> 	  perl5.14 @5.14.2_2 (active)
> 
> 	$ sudo port activate perl5.14 @5.14.2_2
> 	--->  Computing dependencies for perl5.14
> 	--->  Cleaning perl5.14
> 
> 	$ which perl
> 	/opt/local/bin/perl
> 	$ perl -v
> 
> 	This is perl 5, version 12, subversion 4 (v5.12.4) built for darwin-thread-multi-2level
> 
> 	..
> 
> Now what can I do?


$ port provides /opt/local/bin/perl
$ port variants perl5
$ sudo port -n upgrade --enforce-variants perl5 -perl5_12 +perl5_14
$ perl -v

Regards,
Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla)



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