/opt/local/bin/autoheader: /opt/local/bin/perl: bad interpreter

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I am trying to build kdelibs3 but it results with erros saying autoheader and perl are not found. attached is the log of macports installation screen

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Sorry forgot to add, these are the ports I have currently installed:

[Users/jeffery] > installed
The following ports are currently installed:
  apache2 @2.2.10_0+darwin_9
  apache2 @2.2.11_0+darwin_9 (active)
  apr @1.3.3_0 (active)
  apr-util @1.3.4_1 (active)
  aspell @0.60.6_1+macosx (active)
  atk @1.24.0_0 (active)
  audiofile @0.2.6_2 (active)
  autoconf @2.63_0 (active)
  autoconf213 @2.13_0 (active)
  automake @1.10.2_0 (active)
  bison @2.4_1 (active)
  bzip2 @1.0.5_1+darwin_7 (active)
  bzr @1.10_1 (active)
  cairo @1.8.4_1+macosx+no_x11
  cairo @1.8.6_1+macosx+no_x11 (active)
  camlp5 @5.08_0 (active)
  cclient @2007d_0 (active)
  curl @7.19.2_0 (active)
  cyrus-sasl2 @2.1.22_0+kerberos (active)
  db46 @4.6.21_3 (active)
  dbus @1.2.6_0+no_x11 (active)
  dbus-glib @0.78_0 (active)
  docbook-xml @5.0_0 (active)
  docbook-xml-4.1.2 @4.1.2_1 (active)
  docbook-xml-4.2 @4.2_0 (active)
  docbook-xml-4.3 @4.3_0 (active)
  docbook-xml-4.4 @4.4_0 (active)
  docbook-xml-4.5 @4.5_0 (active)
  docbook-xml-5.0 @5.0_0 (active)
  docbook-xsl @1.74.0_0 (active)
  expat @2.0.1_0 (active)
  flex @2.5.35_0 (active)
  fontconfig @2.6.0_0+macosx
  fontconfig @2.6.0_1+macosx (active)
  freetype @2.3.7_3+macosx (active)
  geneweb @5.01_0 (active)
  gettext @0.17_3 (active)
  glib2 @2.18.3_0+darwin_9 (active)
  gperf @3.0.3_0 (active)
  help2man @1.36.4_1 (active)
  hicolor-icon-theme @0.10_0 (active)
  ilmbase @1.0.1_2 (active)
  iso-codes @3.5_0 (active)
  jasper @1.900.1_2+darwin_9 (active)
  jpeg @6b_3 (active)
  libart_lgpl @2.3.20_0 (active)
  libiconv @1.12_0 (active)
  libidn @1.11_0 (active)
  libmcrypt @2.5.8_0 (active)
  libpixman @0.12.0_1 (active)
  libpng @1.2.33_0
  libpng @1.2.34_0 (active)
  libtool @1.5.26_0 (active)
  libxml2 @2.7.2_1+darwin_7+darwin_9 (active)
  libxslt @1.1.24_1+darwin_7+darwin_9 (active)
  lua @5.1.4_0 (active)
  lynx @2.8.6rel.5_1+ssl (active)
  lzmautils @4.32.7_0 (active)
  m4 @1.4.12_1 (active)
  mhash @0.9.9_0
  mhash @0.9.9.9_0 (active)
  mysql5 @5.0.67_1
  mysql5 @5.0.67_1+server (active)
  ncurses @5.7_0 (active)
  ncursesw @5.7_0 (active)
  neon @0.28.3_0 (active)
  ocaml @3.10.2_0+darwin_9 (active)
  openexr @1.6.1_1 (active)
  openssl @0.9.8i_0 (active)
  ossp-uuid @1.6.2_0 (active)
  p5-locale-gettext @1.05_0 (active)
  pcre @7.8_1 (active)
  perl5 @5.8.8_0+darwin_9
  perl5 @5.8.8_1
  perl5 @5.8.8_2 (active)
  perl5.8 @5.8.8_3+darwin_9 (active)
  php5 @5.2.7_1+apache2+darwin_7+imap+macosx+mysql5+pear+postgresql83+readline+sockets+sqlite+t1lib
  php5 @5.2.8_0+apache2+darwin_7+imap+macosx+mysql5+pear+postgresql83+readline+sockets+sqlite+t1lib (active)
  phpmyadmin @2.11.4_0 (active)
  pkgconfig @0.23_1 (active)
  postgresql83 @8.3.5_0 (active)
  py25-bz2 @2.5.2_0 (active)
  py25-crypto @2.0.1_0 (active)
  py25-curl @7.19.0_0 (active)
  py25-curses @2.5.2_0 (active)
  py25-docutils @0.4_0 (active)
  py25-hashlib @2.5.2_0 (active)
  py25-paramiko @1.7.4_0 (active)
  py25-pyrex @0.9.8.5_0 (active)
  py25-socket-ssl @2.5.2_0 (active)
  py25-zlib @2.5.2_0 (active)
  python25 @2.5.2_7+darwin_9 (active)
  python_select @0.1_4+darwin_9 (active)
  qt3 @3.3.8_3+darwin_9 (active)
  readline @5.2.012_1 (active)
  serf @0.2.0_0 (active)
  sqlite3 @3.6.6.2_0 (active)
  subversion @1.5.4_0+mod_dav_svn
  subversion @1.5.5_0+mod_dav_svn (active)
  t1lib @5.1.2_0 (active)
  texinfo @4.13_0 (active)
  tiff @3.8.2_2+darwin_9+macosx (active)
  unsermake @0.4-20070824_1 (active)
  xmlcatmgr @2.2_1 (active)
  zlib @1.2.3_2 (active)

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./admin/cvs.sh: /opt/local/bin/autoheader: /opt/local/bin/perl: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

Odd, /opt/local/bin/perl should be installed by perl5.8 which you do have installed. What does

ls -l /opt/local/bin/perl*

say?

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It has perl5 not perl:

strewth:~ jeffery$ ls -la ls -l /opt/local/bin/perl*
ls: -l: No such file or directory
ls: ls: No such file or directory
-rwxr-xr-x  2 root  admin  1147556  7 Dec 10:41 /opt/local/bin/perl.mp_1228608090
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  admin        9 18 Dec 03:47 /opt/local/bin/perl5 -> perl5.8.8
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  admin       24  7 Dec 10:42 /opt/local/bin/perl5.8 -> /opt/local/bin/perl5.8.8
-rwxr-xr-x  2 root  admin  1147556  7 Dec 10:41 /opt/local/bin/perl5.8.8.mp_1228608090
-rwxr-xr-x  2 root  admin    37285  7 Dec 10:41 /opt/local/bin/perlbug.mp_1228608090
-rwxr-xr-x  2 root  admin    17965  7 Dec 10:41 /opt/local/bin/perlcc.mp_1228608090
-rwxr-xr-x  2 root  admin      236  7 Dec 10:41 /opt/local/bin/perldoc.mp_1228608090
-rwxr-xr-x  2 root  admin    11949  7 Dec 10:41 /opt/local/bin/perlivp.mp_1228608090
strewth:~ jeffery$ 

should I symlink it?

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It looks like you did a force activate on one of the perl ports at some point (probably when perl5 and perl5.8 were having issues with one another). Try

sudo port deactivate perl5.8
sudo port activate perl5.8

to see if that brings /opt/local/bin/perl back.

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thanks muchly, That worked for me.

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