Greetings,
I just "acquired" a shiny new 933MHZ G4 running MacOS X 10.1.3 and have
installed
the developer tools from Dec 2001.
I compiled perl 5.6.1 tonight using a couple of hints posted on the macosx.
com forums.
When "make test" was executed I obtained 4 errors.
1) a failed test 303 ( just before lib/abbrev)
2) lib/db-tree failed at test 0
3) lib/db-recno failed at test 51
4) lib/posix failed at test 11
Are these "well know" failures that perhaps even the apple installed 5.6.0
will fail?
If I pull the trigger on the "make install", what happens to:
1) the existing stuff in the /System/Library/Perl directory. ie is the
directory
deleted completely or do files not having the same name as
installed
files survive?
2) Will the install of 5.6.1 over 5.6.0 invalidate the Apache
module stuff in the
existing distribution? ( or any other dynamically loaded modules)
If I do a "make install", should I do another h2ph run, if yes which
include directories
should be targeted?
I want to ease my way into adding software so I am not terribly keen on
having to
potentially rebuild Apache and mod_perl... Darwin on HFS+ seems to have
some
gotchas.
Thanks for any advice,
Jerry
