How change pert5.18 to perl5.16?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Mar 30, 2014, at 16:43, Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenberg at gmail.com> wrote:

> OK, I did the forced variant change for perl5:
> 
>  % sudo port upgrade --enforce-variants perl5 -perl5_18 +perl5_16
> 
> And now:  
> 
>  $ which perl
>    /opt/local/bin/perl
> 
>  $ perl --version
>    This is perl 5, version 16, subversion 1 (v5.16.1) built for darwin-thread-multi-2level
> 
> And I tried the procedure recommended on http://trac.macports.org/ticket/42582 to rebuild mod_perl2 first, with the desired perl version:
> 
>  % sudo port -ns upgrade --force mod_perl2
>   --->  Computing dependencies for mod_perl2
>  --->  Building mod_perl2
>  Error: org.macports.build for port mod_perl2 returned: command execution failed
>  Please see the log file for port mod_perl2 for details:
> 
> I've posted the log as a new comment to trac.macports.org/ticket/42582.
> 
> How to proceed so that I can eventually get p5-libapreq2 installed along with mod_perl2??
> 
> (I do need to use at least version 5.16 of perl for my ultimate purpose.)

You did not clean mod_perl2 before trying again, so it may not know that you changed the version of perl.

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