Perl 5.12 upgrade fails

[Ryan Schmidt]

On May 6, 2013, at 17:27, Puneet Kishor wrote:

> Thanks Derek, but sadly it seems I have entered the circle of dependency hell. Trying to deactivate libstdcxx produces the following messages
> 
> ----
> | ~ @ punkish (punkish)
> | => sudo port deactivate libstdcxx
> Password:
> --->  Deactivating libstdcxx @4.7.1_101
> --->  Unable to deactivate libstdcxx @4.7.1_101, the following ports depend on it:
> --->  	gcc44 @4.4.7_6
> --->  	gcc43 @4.3.6_7

Force the deactivation:

sudo port -f deactivate libstdcxx

Just remember to re-activate it after you've upgraded perl5.12.