On Jun 27, 2013, at 11:13 AM, Puneet Kishor wrote:

> 
> On Jun 27, 2013, at 11:04 AM, Bradley Giesbrecht <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Jun 27, 2013, at 10:51 AM, Puneet Kishor wrote:
>> 
>>>     $ which perl
>>>     /opt/local/bin/perl
>>>     $ perl -v
>>> 
>>>     This is perl 5, version 12, subversion 4 (v5.12.4) built for 
>>> darwin-thread-multi-2level
>>>     ..
>>> 
>>>     $ port installed perl5.14
>>>     The following ports are currently installed:
>>>       perl5.14 @5.14.2_1
>>>       perl5.14 @5.14.2_2 (active)
>>> 
>>>     $ sudo port activate perl5.14 @5.14.2_2
>>>     --->  Computing dependencies for perl5.14
>>>     --->  Cleaning perl5.14
>>> 
>>>     $ which perl
>>>     /opt/local/bin/perl
>>>     $ perl -v
>>> 
>>>     This is perl 5, version 12, subversion 4 (v5.12.4) built for 
>>> darwin-thread-multi-2level
>>> 
>>>     ..
>>> 
>>> Now what can I do?
>> 
>> 
>> $ port provides /opt/local/bin/perl
>> $ port variants perl5
>> $ sudo port -n upgrade --enforce-variants perl5 -perl5_12 +perl5_14
>> $ perl -v
>> 
> 
> 
> wow! that seemed complicated, but it did the job. Many thanks,


/opt.local/bin/perl is a convenience symlink installed by the perl5 port and 
perl5_12 is the default variant so you just have to tell perl5 you want the 
perl5_14 variant.


Regards,
Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla)

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