At 11:35 AM -0700 4/20/01, Wilfredo Sanchez wrote:
>On Friday, April 20, 2001, at 11:13 AM, Paul J. Schinder wrote:
>
>>It makes it "interoperate" with every other Unix box I have. It
>>gets it off a God damned case insensitive file system. It follows
>>Perl convention (directories for each individual version of perl
>>both in /usr/local/lib/perl and /usr/local/lib/perl/site_perl)
>>rather than the breakage of the hints/darwin.sh.
>
> If you don't want case sensitivity, install and UFS and quit
>whining. Don't see what that has to do with install paths.
>/usr/local is a Unix convention, not a perl convention. There is a
>good reason why perl has a Config.pm with variables for the path
>names.
When I got Mac OS X, I reformatted the drive into three partitions,
one 8 GB UFS at the beginning of the drive, one 8 GB HFS+, the rest
UFS. The installer wouldn't even recognize the UFS partitions. So I
had to reformat the first partitition as HFS+. While I was doing
that I was browsing various places on the Web and Usenet, and noticed
several reports that, although the installer itself claims to allow
you to reformat to UFS, it doesn't actually work, but just hangs.
So, against my better judgement, I installed Mac OS X on HFS+.
(/usr/local is now on my remaining UFS partition.) If anyone has
successfully installed Mac OS X on a UFS partition using the
installer, I'd like to know.
If you go to any Unix/Linux box and "ls /usr/local/lib/perl5" (on
Linux you might need to leave out the local/ depending on the
machine/distribution), you will notice something like:
linux% ls /usr/local/lib/perl5
5.6.0 5.6.1 site_perl
This on one of my Yellow Dog Linux machines, but it looks very
similar on my Solaris or HP-UX boxes at work. On my Mac OS X
machine, however, there are no such version dependent directories in
either /System/Library/Perl or /Library/Perl. Perl first started
doing this, IIRC, when 5.005 came out.
Mac OS X is both a strange Unix and a strange Mac OS.
>
>>In short, it's much better. *If* it breaks anything in Mac OS X,
>>I'll fix it.
>
> OK, you say so.
>
> -Fred
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