Perl 5.12 upgrade fails

[Puneet Kishor]

On May 6, 2013, at 3:40 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:

> 
> On May 6, 2013, at 17:27, Puneet Kishor wrote:
> 
>> Thanks Derek, but sadly it seems I have entered the circle of dependency hell. Trying to deactivate libstdcxx produces the following messages
>> 
>> ----
>> | ~ @ punkish (punkish)
>> | => sudo port deactivate libstdcxx
>> Password:
>> --->  Deactivating libstdcxx @4.7.1_101
>> --->  Unable to deactivate libstdcxx @4.7.1_101, the following ports depend on it:
>> --->  	gcc44 @4.4.7_6
>> --->  	gcc43 @4.3.6_7
> 
> Force the deactivation:
> 
> sudo port -f deactivate libstdcxx
> 
> Just remember to re-activate it after you've upgraded perl5.12.
> 
> 


Thanks, that did the trick. Could this be resolved in the program itself? Is the culprit 'libstdcxx'?

Many thanks anyway.


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Puneet Kishor