port install perl5: "no destroot found"

[jlargentaye (John de Largentaye)]

When I try installing perl5, it fails with "no destroot found". Doing "sudo port clean perl5" does not solve the issue.

[jlargentaye (John de Largentaye)]

(no logs attached above because I found the solution, but this was troublesome enough I figured I'd leave a trace for the next poor soul who encountered a similiar issue)

This is because perl5 is actually a shim frontend to the specific versioned perl package, such as perl5.16 or perl5.18.

Solved by doing cleaning perl5.16 directly, then reinstalling:

sudo port clean perl5.16

sudo port install perl5

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Glad you found the solution. Cleaning the port that failed to build and trying again is the first thing you should always try when a port fails. The port that failed to build is not always the port you asked for.