Olá Everyone, I've been using OS X (10.1 > 10.1.2) full time straight off from OS 8. While I initially had no intention of tinkering with Perl, instead choosing to use Java Servlets (a working kit for which incidentally took a couple of days to get up & running), the high cost of Servlet enabled hosting led me back to Perl.
Anyhoo, it's taken about a week so far, with 2 OS X reinstalls (!), but I've now got a reasonably fault free Perl setup. Still a couple of days before I have the time to get MySQL (I tried the one from http://www.entropy.ch/software/macosx/, but I found something screwy with it, and got rid of it to move to the official one from mysql.com) & all that DBI stuff up. It's been an adventure... Along the way I took notes & found a lot of helpful info. Re. LWP : See http://sial.org/code/perl/docs/life-with-cpan.txt "Life with CPAN". Simply use this command : "perl Makefile.PL INSTALLBIN=/usr/local/bin INSTALLSCRIPT=/usr/local/bin" > HEAD may be a poor naming choice for a command that regularly > gets put onto a Unix system. Understatement. Perl 5.6.1 = dead easy to compile with only 2 preparatory steps : 1. Make that environment.plist file. 2. Fix hints/darwin.sh There are some seriously/dangerously flawed instructions here : http://www.nwlink.com/~danallen/BuildingPerl.htm And here's a bit of "not bad for a Unix idiot" : I got expat-1.95.2 to build flawlessly on OS X 10.1.2 ! I've posted that info to the SourceForge Expat site : http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=502187&group_id=10127&; atid=310127 Tchau ! - Joel _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
