Opened 14 years ago

Closed 13 years ago

#25676 closed defect (invalid)

Can't install perl5.12 on PPC Mac

Reported by: vendion@… Owned by: ghosthound
Priority: Normal Milestone:
Component: ports Version: 1.9.1
Keywords: Cc:
Port: perl5.12

Description (last modified by mf2k (Frank Schima))

When I try to install perl5.12 on my PowerBook G4 running 10.5.8 it errors out with the following output:

Odin:~ vendion$ sudo port install perl5.12
Password:
--->  Computing dependencies for perl5.12
--->  Staging perl5.12 into destroot
Error: No files have been installed in the destroot directory!
Error: Please make sure that this software supports 'make install DESTDIR=${destroot}' or implement an alternative destroot mechanism in the Portfile.
Error: Files might have been installed directly into your system, check before proceeding.
Error: Target org.macports.destroot returned: can't read "portname": no such variable
Log for perl5.12 is at: /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_lang_perl5.12/main.log
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
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main.log (9.2 KB) - added by vendion@… 14 years ago.
main.log file from port install perl5.12

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Change History (4)

Changed 14 years ago by vendion@…

Attachment: main.log added

main.log file from port install perl5.12

comment:1 Changed 14 years ago by mf2k (Frank Schima)

Description: modified (diff)
Owner: changed from macports-tickets@… to ricci@…
Port: perl5.12 added

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comment:2 Changed 14 years ago by jmroot (Joshua Root)

Please clean perl5.12 and generate a log that starts from the beginning.

comment:3 Changed 13 years ago by jmroot (Joshua Root)

Resolution: invalid
Status: newclosed

No response; closing.

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