Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2019 at 10:07 PM From: "Ryan Schmidt" > I am assuming that MacPorts base copies these files to the sip-workaround > directory when it thinks they are being used. > > I note that macOS (High Sierra at least) ships with both /usr/bin/perl and > /usr/bin/perl5.18. They are both version 5.18, their "-V" output is > identical, yet the files have different sizes. I am uncertain why this is. I > would have thought one would be a symlink or hard link to the other. > > I note that the openssl port specifies "configure.perl /usr/bin/perl". > Presumably this means that /usr/bin/perl gets used, and presumably MacPorts > has copied it to the sip-workaround directory. I am uncertain why darwintrace > thinks that /usr/bin/perl5.18 is now needed.
I have encountered a nearly identical error building a different port, and have an idea of why this might be happening. See https://trac.macports.org/ticket/64061
