I should rephrase: I'm happy with fink, and appreciate above all the help here. Especially after trying MacPorts, which basically assumes User status and hijacks ownership of applications....
I think actually the problem is CPAN, and the difference in starting out with a gcc 3 compiled base and trying to build on top of that/upgrade modules from there. So now I want to keep everything separated. I noticed that fink just "went with the flow" using the 5.8.6 perl. And this worked fine. But then eventually something wasn't right; again, likely on the CPAN side. Maybe I'm just not able to get a synergy between CPAN and fink going.... In any event I noticed in Fink Commander an option in preferences to "point to Perl" by establishing a path to the desired Perl, but I couldn't get this to work (no dialogue box comes up). I didn't notice this in any documentation for command-line fink. So I guess that was more my question: I'm happy with fink, want to use it, but am wondering if it is possible to set it up from its installation onward to work with a Perl that I define, separate from the system Perl. Thanks as always! d. On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 10:20:04 -0500, Alexander Hansen wrote: > On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 8:40 AM, Daniel Drennan > <daniel.dren...@jamaalyad.org> wrote: >> [I'd like to subtitle this message "A Sisyphean task...."] >> >> I ran into a lot of trouble after my last emails, strange crashes >> and the like, and I decided to start from scratch with a Perl >> completely separate from the System Perl 5.8.6 on Tiger, as well as >> using an updated-via-Apple gcc 4.0. >> >> Using Perlbrew, I built a new Perl (5.8.8) and using cpanm I set up >> a completely separate module base. >> >> I'm realizing (I think) that things are Not Good when you mix gcc 3 >> and gcc 4, as well as modules and Perls built among them, much less >> packages compiled through fink. >> >> >> So I'm starting again, and I want to keep everything separate in >> terms of Perl worlds.... >> >> MY QUESTION (sorry): Fink seems to want to be tied to the system >> Perl. Is there a way for me to install it using gcc 4 and Perl 5.8.8 >> so that I am bypassing completely any dealing with the System? >> >> > > > fink's builds have been using both gcc4 and g++4 on 10.4 as of > mid-2006, except for packages that specifically couldn't use anything > newer than 3.3. I'm not sure what update you applied--Xcode 2.5 has > worked fine for years for people on 10.4. > > To use Fink you would need at least to hack the fink Perl modules: > 1) to ensure that they point at your Perl. > 2) to set up the system-perl virtual package not to assume other than > perl5.8.6, and to block locally Fink's perl588 package as not for 10.4 > if you want to use Fink to build modules against your Perl. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list Fink-beginners@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
