Re: Updating Perl

2009-09-15 Thread Mark Anderson
One of the things I have done is made soft links in /opt/local/bin from all the -5.10 programs to their real names; Tricks a lot of the ports to just build without building perl5.8. However, this can and probably will mess a bunch of stuff up for you later and/or now. All l can say is it has work

Re: Updating Perl

2009-09-15 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Sep 15, 2009, at 19:16, Mine wrote: On 16 Sep 2009, at 00:47, Ryan Schmidt wrote: At this point, a lot of ports in MacPorts require perl 5.8. Hopefully this situation will be sorted out soon and we will be using perl 5.10 instead. The ticket: http://trac.macports.org/ticket/16830

Re: Updating Perl

2009-09-15 Thread Mine
Hi, Does this mean that I can't or should not install Perl 5.10.1? It is available as a port, and I think I remember reading somewhere on CPAN that installing 5.10.1 can live along side 5.8.8. Is that correct? Will the .Profile doc created by MacPorts reflect the new install, so 5.10.1 will be

Re: Updating Perl

2009-09-15 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Sep 15, 2009, at 17:23, Mine wrote: After spending a considerable amount of time trying to get get_iplayer to work with my MacPorts installed Perl 5.8.8, I have come to the conclusion that perhaps I should upgrade my Perl to 5.10.1. I have tried to uninstall 5.8.8 but it has a number of

Updating Perl

2009-09-15 Thread Mine
Hi, After spending a considerable amount of time trying to get get_iplayer to work with my MacPorts installed Perl 5.8.8, I have come to the conclusion that perhaps I should upgrade my Perl to 5.10.1. I have tried to uninstall 5.8.8 but it has a number of dependencies: p5-locale-gettext, he