RFE: Ensure that automake uses MacPorts perl

[mcalhoun@…]

Attached is a proposal to ensure that automake uses the MacPorts perl.

See #16830 for the reasons for using perl5 instead of perl5.8.

[jmr@…]

Using ${prefix} in depspecs doesn't work as expected (much to my surprise). Use bin/perl rather than ${prefix}/bin/perl, and the prefix will be prepended automatically (and correctly).

[mcalhoun@…]

Thanks for the information.
I just uploaded a revised Portfile.diff.

[mww@…]

thanks, fixed!

[mcalhoun@…]

I just noticed that the patch was only partially applied.
Due to the #17182, path dependencies should not have ${prefix} in them.

I have uploaded another patch file.

[mcalhoun@…]

Fixed in r42628.

[anonymous]

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