Port builds perl5.8 even if already installed in the system

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Oct 13, 2009, at 18:36, Pablo Ramirez wrote:

> I'm not sure if this behaviour is correct or exists a way to avoid it.

The behavior is correct. There is no way to avoid it.

> I've a OSX Snow Leopard installed and it includes a perl version  
> 5.10.0, so when tried to install wine using "sudo port install  
> wine", the first package for build was perl 5.8.9.
>
> Why port doesn't use the system's perl ?

For the reasons explained in the FAQ:

http://trac.macports.org/wiki/FAQ#syslibs

> This can be avoided with some argument for "install" ?

No.

> This is normal and strict ?

This is normal.