Perl 5.8 dependency?

[S.M. Protsman]

To make it interesting I ran the dependents command:

@naiad ~] port dependents perl5.8
perl5.8 has no dependents!

Hmmm...


On Mar 17, 2010, at 11:45 AM, Matrix Mole wrote:

> I don't know much about perl myself, so I'm just tossing out basic
> troubleshooting with what little information I do know about the port
> system itself.
>
> You can run 'port dependents perl5.8' to find out what on your system
> still needs it. I can see that perl5 has a perl5_10 variant, and also
> that on my system perl5 depends upon perl5.8 directly. Looking into
> the actual PortFile for perl5, the variant perl5_10 removes the
> dependency on perl5.8 and replaces it with a dependency for perl5.10.
> You may need to re-install perl5 with the +perl5_10 assuming no other
> ports are dependent upon perl5.8 (again, checked with the dependents
> command at the beginning of this paragraph).
>
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 11:33 AM, S.M. Protsman <protsman at mac.com>  
> wrote:
>> I'm running Macports Perl v5.10.1. I do not have a 5.8 variant  
>> installed
>> (other than Apple's). When I ran an update this morning Macports  
>> tries to
>> install 5.8.9_3, which of course, fails to install/activate. I'm  
>> not certain
>> what is dependent upon 5.8.9 but would rather see everything bumped  
>> to 5.10.
>> Suggestions?
>>
>> @naiad ~] sw_vers
>> ProductName:    Mac OS X
>> ProductVersion: 10.5.8
>> BuildVersion:   9L30
>>
>> Output:
>>
>> --->  Updating the ports tree
>> --->  Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync
>> MacPorts base version 1.8.2 installed,
>> MacPorts base version 1.8.2 downloaded.
>> --->  MacPorts base is already the latest version
>>
>> The ports tree has been updated. To upgrade your installed ports,  
>> you should
>> run
>>  port upgrade outdated
>> --->  Computing dependencies for m4
>> --->  Fetching m4
>> --->  Attempting to fetch m4-1.4.14.tar.bz2 from
>> http://distfiles.macports.org/m4
>> --->  Attempting to fetch m4-1.4.14.tar.bz2 from
>> ftp://ftp.dti.ad.jp/pub/GNU/m4
>> --->  Verifying checksum(s) for m4
>> --->  Extracting m4
>> --->  Configuring m4
>> --->  Building m4
>> --->  Staging m4 into destroot
>> --->  Deactivating m4 @1.4.13_0
>> --->  Computing dependencies for m4
>> --->  Installing m4 @1.4.14_0
>> --->  Activating m4 @1.4.14_0
>> --->  Cleaning m4
>> --->  Computing dependencies for perl5.8
>> --->  Fetching perl5.8
>> --->  Attempting to fetch perl-5.8.9.tar.bz2 from http://www.cpan.org/src/
>> --->  Verifying checksum(s) for perl5.8
>> --->  Extracting perl5.8
>> --->  Applying patches to perl5.8
>> --->  Configuring perl5.8
>> --->  Building perl5.8
>> --->  Staging perl5.8 into destroot
>> --->  Installing perl5.8 @5.8.9_3
>> --->  Activating perl5.8 @5.8.9_3
>> Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error:
>> /opt/local/bin/a2p is being used by the active perl5.10 port.  Please
>> deactivate this port first, or use 'port -f activate perl5.8' to  
>> force the
>> activation.
>> Error: Problem while installing perl5.8
>> Before reporting a bug, first run the command again with the -d  
>> flag to get
>> complete output.
>>
>>
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