Perl 5.12 upgrade fails

[Ryan Schmidt]

On May 7, 2013, at 13:25, Puneet Kishor wrote:

> On May 6, 2013, at 3:40 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> Thanks, that did the trick. Could this be resolved in the program itself? Is the culprit 'libstdcxx'?

It's presumed to be a bug in the linker.

https://trac.macports.org/ticket/36438

rdar://problem/12450551