changing default perl

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Nov 3, 2013, at 12:04, Mr. Puneet Kishor wrote:

> This is quite confusing
> 
>    09:45:13 [lucknow.att.net] ~$ which perl
>    /opt/local/bin/perl
>    09:45:31 [lucknow.att.net] ~$ perl -v
> 
>    This is perl 5, version 12, subversion 4 (v5.12.4) built for darwin-thread-multi-2level
>    ..

So far so normal.


>    09:46:47 [lucknow.att.net] ~$ sudo port install perl5 +perl5_18
>    --->  Computing dependencies for perl5
>    --->  Cleaning perl5
>    --->  Scanning binaries for linking errors: 100.0%
>    --->  No broken files found.

Observe that nothing happened: MacPorts did not reinstall the port.


>    09:47:42 [lucknow.att.net] ~$ perl -v
> 
>    This is perl 5, version 12, subversion 4 (v5.12.4) built for darwin-thread-multi-2level
>    ..
> 
>    09:47:53 [lucknow.att.net] ~$ sudo port installed perl5
>    The following ports are currently installed:
>      perl5 @5.12.4_0+perl5_12 (active)
> 
>    09:47:56 [lucknow.att.net] ~$ ls -alF /opt/local/bin/perl
>    lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  admin  8 Oct 31 17:46 /opt/local/bin/perl@ -> perl5.12
>    09:49:44 [lucknow.att.net] ~$ 

So it is not surprising that this is still the same.


>    09:49:44 [lucknow.att.net] ~$ port installed perl5*
>    The following ports are currently installed:
>      perl5 @5.12.4_0+perl5_12 (active)
>      perl5.12 @5.12.4_2 (active)
>      perl5.16 @5.16.1_3 (active)
>      perl5.18 @5.18.1_0 (active)
>    09:53:02 [lucknow.att.net] ~$
> 
> Suggestions?

Observe with “port variants perl5” that it does not have a variant called “perl5_18”. We should add one.