On Sun Jan 18 2009 @ 6:31, Steven Sankaran wrote: > Hm. I have spent the last hour or so attempting to get this to work, > but I cannot seem to get Perl to update. I have located the 5.10 > directory under /usr/local/ActiveState-5.10 but I cannot get Eclipse > to recognize it. I even tried Eclipse and EasyEclipse. Does anyone > have any other IDE suggestions for Mac OSX? Perhaps something a little > more user friendly.
I use MacVim on OS X (http://code.google.com/p/macvim/), but that's essentially just a gui version of vim, not a full IDE. The IDE I hear the most about for Mac is TextMate (http://macromates.com/), but I've never tried it. As for Perl, you *did* install an updated version of it. By default, a newer version won't (and probably shouldn't) simply overwrite your system's version. The system may depend on various things being the way they are with the Perl they ship. So, only Mac should update the Perl in /usr/bin (don't hold your breath). However, there's nothing to stop you from installing a newer version somewhere else, as you did, and using that version. Probably the first thing you need to do now is update your $PATH. If you open the .profile file in your user home directory (/Users/your-name/.profile), you want to add a line like this to it: export PATH=/usr/local/ActiveState-5.10/bin:$PATH That simply prepends the new ActiveState directory to your already existing path. When a shell looks for a perl binary, it should now find the new one first. After you do the edit, source the new path and test it with the command "which perl". Here's how to source it. Type this in a shell: . .profile This may even help the Eclipse problem, though I doubt it. I would check its documentation and see what it says about changing your $PATH or multiple insallations of one interpreter. HTH, T -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
