#17304: Activating perl5 5.8.8_0 failed ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Reporter: daviwak-macports@… | Owner: mcalhoun@… Type: defect | Status: assigned Priority: Normal | Milestone: Port Bugs Component: ports | Version: 1.6.0 Keywords: activating | Port: perl5 ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Changes (by mcalhoun@…): * owner: macports-tickets@… => mcalhoun@… * status: new => assigned Comment: Without more information, it is difficult to know why two per5.8 packages tried to install.[[BR]] By any chance, did you upgrade to Leopard without reinstalling MacPorts?[[BR]] Otherwise, I am not sure why one has the darwin_9 variant and the other does not. -- Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/17304#comment:1> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for Mac OS

#17304: Activating perl5 5.8.8_0 failed ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Reporter: daviwak-macports@… | Owner: mcalhoun@… Type: defect | Status: assigned Priority: Normal | Milestone: Port Bugs Component: ports | Version: 1.6.0 Keywords: activating | Port: perl5 ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Comment(by mcalhoun@…): This is very strange. I would suggest uninstalling perl5.8 completely, reinstalling it, and trying again.[[BR]] Since you probably now have two perls installed, you need to use the uninstall with version number:[[BR]] {{{ port installed perl5.8 }}} You will probably see two lines.[[BR]] For each line, run the command {{{ port uninstall perl5.8 @ ... }}} where ... is the full version number (without the "(active)"). Now run {{{ port selfupdate port clean perl5.8 port install perl5.8 port install lablgtk2 }}} Let me know if this solves the problem. -- Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/17304#comment:3> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for Mac OS

#17304: Activating perl5 5.8.8_0 failed ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Reporter: daviwak-macports@… | Owner: mcalhoun@… Type: defect | Status: assigned Priority: Normal | Milestone: Port Bugs Component: ports | Version: 1.6.0 Keywords: activating | Port: perl5 ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Comment(by mcalhoun@…): Replying to [comment:4 blb@…]:

It would appear to be a perl5 vs. perl5.8 problem, considering '''/opt/local/bin/a2p is being used by the active perl5.8''' and '''Activating perl5'''.

You are absolutely right.[[BR]] I don't know how I missed that. Forget all my previous advice. {{{ port uninstall perl5 port install lablgtk2 }}} Should fix the problem. It is what happened in #17115. -- Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/17304#comment:5> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for Mac OS

#17304: Activating perl5 5.8.8_0 failed ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Reporter: daviwak-macports@… | Owner: mcalhoun@… Type: defect | Status: assigned Priority: Normal | Milestone: Port Bugs Component: ports | Version: 1.6.0 Keywords: activating | Port: perl5 ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Comment(by mcalhoun@…): Unfortunately, I am not an expert in the dependency tracking part of the MacPorts code,[[BR]] but there are two more things we can try: We might be running into a know [ProblemHotlist#Inactiveportcantberemovedeventhoughanewerversionisinstalled problem] in MacPorts 1.6.[[BR]] If this is the case, then we try their solution {{{ port -f uninstall perl5 port install lablgtk2 }}} If you get sick of trying these things, the brute force solution is to reinstall MacPorts, install perl5.8, and then install lablgtk2. The essence of this problem is that we are trying to transition from perl5 to perl5.8 to install /opt/local/bin/perl, and there have been a few problems along the way.[[BR]] See ##16830 for more details. -- Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/17304#comment:7> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for Mac OS

#17304: Activating perl5 5.8.8_0 failed ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Reporter: daviwak-macports@… | Owner: mcalhoun@… Type: defect | Status: assigned Priority: Normal | Milestone: Port Bugs Component: ports | Version: 1.6.0 Keywords: activating | Port: perl5 ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Comment(by mcalhoun@…): I am glad your installation remains functional.[[BR]] I am sorry I couldn't be more help. -- Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/17304#comment:9> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for Mac OS

#17304: Activating perl5 5.8.8_0 failed ----------------------------------------+----------------------------------- Reporter: daviwak-macports@… | Owner: mcalhoun@… Type: defect | Status: closed Priority: Normal | Milestone: Port Bugs Component: ports | Version: 1.6.0 Resolution: wontfix | Keywords: activating Port: perl5 | ----------------------------------------+----------------------------------- Comment(by jeremyhu@…): I think the perl5 port should atleast add a perl5->perl5.8 symlink for now... -- Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/17304#comment:11> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for Mac OS

#17304: Activating perl5 5.8.8_0 failed ----------------------------------------+----------------------------------- Reporter: daviwak-macports@… | Owner: mcalhoun@… Type: defect | Status: closed Priority: Normal | Milestone: Port Bugs Component: ports | Version: 1.6.0 Resolution: wontfix | Keywords: activating Port: perl5 | ----------------------------------------+----------------------------------- Comment(by jeremyhu@…): Yeah, I think we should now. I'm seeing it used in some existing scripts: $ grep perl5$ /opt/local/bin/* /opt/local/bin/c_rehash:#!/opt/local/bin/perl5 -- Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/17304#comment:14> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for Mac OS