weirdness setting default perl version

[Bradley Giesbrecht]

On Jun 27, 2013, at 11:13 AM, Puneet Kishor wrote:

> 
> 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:
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>>> 	$ 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,


/opt.local/bin/perl is a convenience symlink installed by the perl5 port and perl5_12 is the default variant so you just have to tell perl5 you want the perl5_14 variant.


Regards,
Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla)