Thanks Ryan, recompiling perl solved the issue.
> On 19 Jan 2021, at 23:12, Ryan Schmidt <ryandes...@macports.org> wrote:
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> On Jan 19, 2021, at 09:52, ximon wrote:
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>> Hi, I have a new install of macports on 11.1 BigSur. mysql8 is installed and
>> works, as does the mysql client, perl 5.28 installed also. When I try to
>> install p5.28-dbd-mysql +mysql8 it fails with the below log messages.
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> See the last paragraph of https://trac.macports.org/ticket/62086#comment:6
> for the workaround.
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