MacPorts Perl build making incorrect assumptions

[jwelch@…]

In building Perl 5.12.3, someone didn't take into account the new path to the compilers.

If you run "perl -V" on a current macports build, you get:

cc='/Developer/usr/bin/llvm-gcc-4.2'

This is clearly a problem, since with how Xcode is set up now, there is no /Developer. That's now:

/Applications/Xcode45-DP3.app/Contents/Developer or similar

So there's no way Perl will ever find a C compiler, something it rather wants for certain modules.

[danielluke (Daniel J. Luke)]

macports perl5.12 is currently at 5.12.4, on my 10.7 box it has a cc of /usr/bin/clang

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Perl will find what the correct compiler is at compile time. So there should be no problem, assuming you build perl after installing Xcode 4.5 DP3.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

Yeah, this was changed quite a while ago.