Opened 16 years ago

Closed 15 years ago

Last modified 14 years ago

#15833 closed enhancement (wontfix)

perl modules: depend on Perl 5.x instead of Perl 5.8

Reported by: pmagrath@… Owned by: MarcusCalhoun-Lopez (Marcus Calhoun-Lopez)
Priority: Normal Milestone:
Component: base Version: 1.6.0
Keywords: Cc:
Port:

Description

p5-net-ssleay relies on a dependency, perl5.8. If perl5.10 is already installed, that version of perl should be used instead of installing perl5.8 as well.

Change History (6)

comment:1 Changed 16 years ago by jmroot (Joshua Root)

Component: portsbase
Milestone: Port RequestsMacPorts base enhancements
Summary: p5-net-ssleay 1.3 Dependency on Perl 5.8 instead of Perl 5.xperl modules: depend on Perl 5.x instead of Perl 5.8
Type: defectenhancement

This behaviour is common to all ports that use the perl5 portgroup.

comment:2 Changed 16 years ago by raimue (Rainer Müller)

The perl5 port group uses the version of perl which is available at ${prefix}/bin/perl.

So as an immediate workaround(!) you can use this approach:

sudo port install perl5.10
sudo ln -sf /opt/local/bin/perl5.10.0 /opt/local/bin/perl
sudo port -fn upgrade p5-*

This should make all p5-* ports use perl5.10 instead of perl5.8. Note that this will break as soon as you upgrade perl5.8 as it will restore the /opt/local/bin/perl symlink.

comment:3 Changed 16 years ago by afb@…

This behaviour is also in the Python ports, but even worse there since it needs one port for each language version (i.e. py-foo requires python24 and py25-foo requires python25). You can also see it with X11 ports requiring XFree86, but there it is a library dependency so having another X server install will also work - compare bin:perl:perl5.8

comment:4 Changed 15 years ago by MarcusCalhoun-Lopez (Marcus Calhoun-Lopez)

Owner: changed from macports-tickets@… to mcalhoun@…
Status: newassigned

comment:5 Changed 15 years ago by MarcusCalhoun-Lopez (Marcus Calhoun-Lopez)

Resolution: wontfix
Status: assignedclosed

It was decided to have only one perl5 port control ${prefix}/bin/perl.
See #16830.

comment:6 Changed 14 years ago by jmroot (Joshua Root)

Milestone: MacPorts Future
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