<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 10:26 AM, Murray Eisenberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:murrayeisenberg@gmail.com" target="_blank">murrayeisenberg@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">><br>
> Hm. Sounds like a dangling link to a no longer installed perl --- but that's something that "port select" can cause but the perl5 port shouldn't. Confusing.<br>
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</span>Unless I'm misunderstanding something, "port select" does not work at all for perl:<br></blockquote></div><br>It doesn't. But one of the shortcomings of the "port select" mechanism in general is that there are circumstances where it leaves dangling symlinks around; the variants-based mechanism used by the perl ports can't normally do this, unless you've been playing games with --force or manually removing stuff. So I'm confused as to how you managed to have an invalid /opt/local/bin/perl.<br><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates</div><div><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a> <a href="mailto:ballbery@sinenomine.net" target="_blank">ballbery@sinenomine.net</a></div><div>unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad <a href="http://sinenomine.net" target="_blank">http://sinenomine.net</a></div></div></div>
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