ghc does not let me use perl5.10

[lee@…]

I am trying to keep a macports install with only perl5.10, but GHC forces me to install perl5.8. As I understand it, all of the available p5 modules will work with perl5.10 so it should be OK to allow either 5.8 or 5.10.

[blb@…]

Assigning to maintainer.

Any port which uses the perl port group (which should be the vast majority of p5-* ports) will use an already-installed perl5.10 if available, but ghc specifically depends on perl5.8. ghc could be updated to work like the perl modules by changing the perl dependency to:

depends_run path:${prefix}/bin/perl:perl5.8

Assuming it would work okay with 5.10

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

It would work, except that AFAIK perl5.10 does not install ${prefix}/bin/perl, which is what the perl5 portgroup relies on.

[lee@…]

Maybe this is something that should be brought up to the perl 5.10 maintainers? The addition of a perl equivalent to 'pythonselect' would be nice, and would guarantee a bin/perl binary. Or just a full transition to perl 5.10, since all of the new features are off by default.

[afb@…]

Replying to jmr@macports.org:

It would work, except that AFAIK perl5.10 does not install ${prefix}/bin/perl, which is what the perl5 portgroup relies on.

If you edit the ${prefix}/bin/perl binary (to be a link to perl5.10.0 instead of perl5.8.8), you would be able to use perl5.10 if the bin:perl dependency style was used. perl_select or not.

[afb@…]

Maybe one does want path:${prefix}/bin/perl instead of bin:perl to not pick up system :-)

[afb@…]

See also ​http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2007-December/003911.html

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

See related (or duplicate?) ticket #17263.

[gwright@…]

Closing as a duplicate of #17263; further changes will be tracked under that ticket.

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