Hi all, I finally got Perl 5.6.1 to compile & test on OS X under an HFS+ partition. The big step was to specify "-Dfirstmakefile=GNUmakefile" to Configure, since this avoids the conflict between 'makefile' and 'Makefile'. I also had to set the LC_ALL environment variable to 'C', since I was getting a lot of warnings about locales being messed up. I imagine I could have just unset the LANG variable too. Not sure whether there's any benefit to either. I've got a very vanilla Darwin, so others will probably have to do the same things I did. In a nutshell: % setenv LC_ALL C % sh Configure -ds -e -Dprefix=/usr -Dccflags="-g -pipe" -Dldflags= -Dfirstmakefile=GNUmakefile [bunch of output snipped] % make [bunch of output snipped] % make test Failed 4 test scripts out of 251, 98.41% okay. I didn't do 'make install', because I'm not quite ready to commit to this installation. I might wait for the Apple 10.0.1 update (or whatever they'll call it) because I don't want that mucking with any Perl I install now. The 4 tests that failed are expected to fail, and aren't really features I expect to use (Berkeley::DB btree and recno structures, a minor detail of the 'warnings' pragma, and something in the lib/posix.t test that I might check out later). I don't know whether I needed all those options to Configure, but those were the options specified in the version of Perl that ships with OS X (as shown in perl -V). ------------------- ------------------- Ken Williams Last Bastion of Euclidity [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Math Forum
