ports dependency bug report: perl5

[Mark Foster]

h wrote:
[snip]
> ports are looking for perl 5.8.4. they don't see it, so they rebuild perl5.8. 
> then perl 5.8.5 gets rebuild, and it won't install coz it's already 
> installed. therefore 200 ports don't get upgraded.
> 
> how do i fix this ?
> _______________________________________________

Assuming you have them (if you don't run use.perl port), change these
settings in /etc/make.conf
PERL_VER=5.8.x
PERL_VERSION=5.8.x

Make it match what version you have installed.
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