Re: First port installation fails

2007-12-14 Thread Daniel J. Luke
On Dec 13, 2007, at 11:04 AM, Markus Weissmann wrote: hmmm... indeed - would it be possible to make a perl5.8 port that uses a perl5.8-minimal and all the modules that would otherwise need to overwrite parts of the perl5.8 port? Oh that's interesting, I don't know if we can do that or not. T

Re: First port installation fails

2007-12-14 Thread Markus Weissmann
On Dec 13, 2007, at 4:50 PM, Richard Tobin wrote: As the error message says: "You must install or activate this package with '-f' (force) as it needs to overwrite files installed by the perl5.8 port" The problem is not that the error message isn't clear. It's that you don't expect to get err

Re: First port installation fails

2007-12-13 Thread Richard Tobin
> As the > error message says: > > "You must install or activate this package with '-f' (force) as it > needs to overwrite files installed by the perl5.8 port" The problem is not that the error message isn't clear. It's that you don't expect to get error messages during port installations un

Re: First port installation fails

2007-12-13 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Dec 13, 2007, at 09:36, Richard Tobin wrote: The p5-pathtools needs to overwrite the older pathtools that come with perl5.8 in order to be found (perl searches the vendor location last by default, and the perl community consensus is that this is the appropriate way to upgrade modules that s

Re: First port installation fails

2007-12-13 Thread Daniel J. Luke
On Dec 13, 2007, at 10:36 AM, Richard Tobin wrote: You can run `sudo port -f install p5-pathtools` and then try installing firefox-x11 again and it should work. I did that, and it said: macpro$ sudo port -f install p5-pathtools ---> Installing p5-pathtools 3.25_0 Error: Target org.macports.in

Re: First port installation fails

2007-12-13 Thread Richard Tobin
> The p5-pathtools needs to overwrite the older pathtools that come with > perl5.8 in order to be found (perl searches the vendor location last > by default, and the perl community consensus is that this is the > appropriate way to upgrade modules that ship with perl). > > To that end, p5-pa

Re: First port installation fails

2007-12-12 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Dec 12, 2007, at 21:04, Daniel J. Luke wrote: On Dec 12, 2007, at 6:08 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: You can run `sudo port -f install p5-pathtools` and then try installing firefox-x11 again and it should work. So that this doesn't force a rebuild of perl5.8 as well, you should recommend

Re: First port installation fails

2007-12-12 Thread Daniel J. Luke
On Dec 12, 2007, at 6:08 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: You can run `sudo port -f install p5-pathtools` and then try installing firefox-x11 again and it should work. So that this doesn't force a rebuild of perl5.8 as well, you should recommend sudo port -nf install p5-pathtools instead. That's

Re: First port installation fails

2007-12-12 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Dec 12, 2007, at 08:23, Daniel J. Luke wrote: On Dec 12, 2007, at 7:26 AM, Weissmann Markus wrote: After installing several ports, it aborted with: ---> Activating p5-pathtools 3.25_0 Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error: /opt/ local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/darwin-2level/aut

Re: First port installation fails

2007-12-12 Thread Daniel J. Luke
On Dec 12, 2007, at 7:26 AM, Weissmann Markus wrote: After installing several ports, it aborted with: ---> Activating p5-pathtools 3.25_0 Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error: /opt/ local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/darwin-2level/auto/Cwd/Cwd.bs is being used by the active perl5.8 p

Re: First port installation fails

2007-12-12 Thread Weissmann Markus
On 12.12.2007, at 13:21, Richard Tobin wrote: I installed MacPorts-1.5.0.pkg, did a self-update, then did port install firefox-x11 After installing several ports, it aborted with: ---> Activating p5-pathtools 3.25_0 Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error: /opt/ local/li

First port installation fails

2007-12-12 Thread Richard Tobin
I installed MacPorts-1.5.0.pkg, did a self-update, then did port install firefox-x11 After installing several ports, it aborted with: ---> Activating p5-pathtools 3.25_0 Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error: /opt/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/darwin-2level/auto/Cwd/Cwd.bs is bei