Hi, Thanks for the reply.
I've been looking around, and it appears as though you succeeded because of two factors in your favor, which are not in mine: 1) You probably know what you're doing already 2) You're not using an iBook. The CPAN modules look for that file, "/System/Library/Perl/darwin/CORE/perl.h," and that file does not exist on my iBook, so the modules don't install. I thought it might just be MY iBook, that maybe I screwed something up trying to get DBI installed, but this weekend I visited a friend who has both an iBook and a G4 PowerBook. His PowerBook has that file in the correct location, his iBook does not. Now I have to hit the Macintosh boards, see if I can just copy that file into the correct location, or if something else has to happen first, or if there is something about the G3 iBook that doesn't agree with that file, or something else entirely is going on. Thanks for the help, though. At 3:25 PM -0700 5/23/02, Stephen Keller wrote: >Well, I just tried to install the latest DBI on a MacOSX machine using the >following: > >sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell >cpan> install DBI > >It went without a flaw and passed all of its tests. The test system is >running MacOSX 10.1.4 on a G4 Cube. The development tools are reasonably up >to date and I've never tweaked the perl installation there (other than some >other CPAN modules), so it should be in the default install location. > >Is it possible that your development tools need to be updated? That's a >separate step from the regular system upgrades, I think. > >Stph > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Patrick Burke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 1:54 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: DBI on Mac OSX? > > > > > > Hi, > > > > Sorry to bother you, but I've been having a heckuva time > > trying to get > > DBI on my Mac OSX, and I was wondering if you've heard from others in > > similar situations. > > > > I downloaded DBI 1.22 from CPAN. When I try to run the module ("perl > > Makefile.PL"), I get the following error: > > > > Begin Error: > > *************** > > Error: Unable to locate installed Perl libraries or Perl source code. > > > > It is recommended that you install perl in a standard location before > > building extensions. Some precompiled versions of perl do not contain > > these header files, so you cannot build extensions. In such a case, > > please build and install your perl from a fresh perl distribution. It > > usually solves this kind of problem. > > > > (You get this message, because MakeMaker could not find > > "/System/Library/Perl/darwin/CORE/perl.h") > > **************** > > End Error > > > > Have you heard from others who have done this successfully > > the way OSX > > is set up by default? Or did they install a new distribution of perl, > > the way the error message suggests? > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > Patrick Burke Project Manager Biological Sciences Division Information Systems The University of Chicago [EMAIL PROTECTED]
