lang/perl5.8 fails

[Anton Berezin]

On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 10:18:07AM +0100, pobox at verysmall.org wrote:
> Anton Berezin wrote:
>> Without knowing at what stage of the portupgrade process you got this
>> problem - just guessing - it might have confused bsd.port.mk when it 
>> invoked
>> stuff in bsd.apache.mk (because of USE_APACHE statement) while the old 
>> perl
>> was deinstalled.
> 
> It happened when portupgrade tried to install the new version (after 
> backing up the old version). Then this error came and portupgrade 
> reinstalled the old version.

Right, so as I said - apxs could not be invoked because there was no perl
isntalled at that particular instant.

> Thinking in retrospective - /etc/make.conf was perhaps not the best place 
> to put USE_APACHE=2.2 when I needed it only for php.

Well yeah, we are not Gentoo.  But we should probably not fail in such
not-so obvious manner here, anyway.

\Anton.
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