weirdness setting default perl version

[Puneet Kishor]

On Jun 27, 2013, at 11:04 AM, Bradley Giesbrecht <pixilla at macports.org> wrote:

> 
> 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
> 


wow! that seemed complicated, but it did the job. Many thanks,


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Puneet Kishor