On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 5:00 PM, Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenb...@gmail.com > wrote:
> Because p5-libapreq2 won't build with perl5.18 -- see > http://trac.macports.org/ticket/28831 -- and because perl5.18 is > currently my default version of perl5, I need to try again but now with > perl5.16. How? > > I tried first "sudo port select perl5 perl5.16" (and same thing with just > "perl" instead of "perl5") but get error "The specified group 'perl5' does > not exist." > Perl doesn't currently use the port select mechanism; there are at the moment too many corner cases to deal with. To select the default perl, you need to change the variant of the perl5 port: sudo port upgrade --enforce-variants perl5 -perl5_18 +perl5_16 This should not disrupt ports using a different perl version, since the other versions will still be installed afterward. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
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