On 2017-10-15 12:16, Carlo Tambuatco wrote:
On Oct 15, 2017, at 11:20 AM, Michael Parson <[email protected]> wrote:
On 2017-10-15 00:22, Carlo Tambuatco wrote:
So as I understand, the perl_select port is obsolete, right?
I’ve got perl5 wrapper port as well as the perl5.24 variant
installed.
I’ve also got various other perl versions installed so my perl
installation list looks like:
perl5 @5.24.2_0+perl5_24 (active)
perl5.16 @5.16.3_4 (active)
perl5.18 @5.18.4_3 (active)
perl5.22 @5.22.4_0 (active)
perl5.24 @5.24.2_0 (active)
with all the various default perl programs symlinked to perl5.24. If
I
wanted to switch the default
perl5.x to any of my other perl versions, what is the mechanism for
doing so now that
perl_select no longer recognizes any installed perl?
This should be handled with 'port select'
Try:
port select --show perl5 # show which 'perl5' is currently selected
Error: The 'show' command failed: The specified group 'perl5' does not
exist.
port select --list perl5 # list which pkgs you can select for ‘perl5'
Warning: Unable to get active selected version: The specified group
'perl5' does not exist.
Error: The 'list' command failed: The specified group 'perl5' does not
exist.
sudo port select perl5 perl5.16 # use 'perl5.16' as your current
‘perl5'
Did not bother with this as the above commands failed...
Huh. I was basing this on having used the 'port select' stuff for gcc &
python, looks like perl isn't using this feature.
$ port select --summary
Name Selected Options
==== ======== =======
cython none cython27 none
gcc none mp-gcc6 mp-gcc7 none
llvm none mp-llvm-4.0 none
nosetests none nosetests27 none
python python27 python26-apple python27 python27-apple python36
none
python2 none python26-apple python27 python27-apple none
python3 python36 python36 none
$ port installed | grep perl5
mosh @1.3.2_0+perl5_24 (active)
perl5 @5.24.2_0+perl5_24 (active)
perl5.20 @5.20.3_2 (active)
perl5.24 @5.24.2_0 (active)
It looks like getting this to work with perl is more complicated and is
still an open issue:
https://trac.macports.org/ticket/29763
