Following the directions mentioned earlier on this list, and archived at:
http://duke.usask.ca/~dalglb/macosx/Perl_5.6.html
http://archive.develooper.com/macosx%40perl.org/msg00895.html
....I have tried to upgrade to Perl 5.6.1 and it's not working right.
For example (note the errors when I try to use CPAN.pm, 2nd command):
[Wed 7:37:38pm ~]% perl -v
This is perl, v5.6.1 built for darwin
Copyright 1987-2001, Larry Wall
Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic
License or the GNU General Public License, which may be found
in the Perl 5 source kit.
Complete documentation for Perl, including FAQ lists, should be
found on this system using `man perl' or `perldoc perl'. If
you have access to the Internet, point your browser at
http://www.perl.com/, the Perl Home Page.
[Wed 7:37:41pm ~]% sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell
cpan> i LWP
dyld: perl Undefined symbols:
_PerlIO_getc
_PerlIO_putc
_Perl_PerlIO_read
_Perl_PerlIO_write
_Perl_sv_2pv_flags
[Wed 7:37:52pm ~]% perl -V
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 6 subversion 1)
configuration:
Platform:
osname=darwin, osvers=5.3, archname=darwin
uname='darwin localhost 5.3 darwin kernel version 5.3: thu
jan 24 22:06:02 pst 2002; root:xnuxnu-201.19.obj~1release_ppc
power macintosh powerpc '
config_args='-des -Dfirstmakefile=GNUmakefile
-Dldflags=-flat_namespace'
hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef
usemultiplicity=undef
useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
Compiler:
cc='cc', ccflags ='-pipe -fno-common -DHAS_TELLDIR_PROTOTYPE
-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include',
optimize='-O3',
cppflags='-pipe -fno-common -DHAS_TELLDIR_PROTOTYPE
-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include'
ccversion='', gccversion='Apple devkit-based CPP 6.0',
gccosandvers=''
intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=4321
d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=8
ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8,
Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
alignbytes=8, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
Linker and Libraries:
ld='cc', ldflags ='-flat_namespace -L/usr/local/lib'
libpth=/usr/local/lib /usr/lib
libs=-lm -lc
perllibs=-lm -lc
libc=/System/Library/Frameworks/System.framework/System,
so=dylib, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.dylib
Dynamic Linking:
dlsrc=dl_dyld.xs, dlext=bundle, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags='-flat_namespace -bundle -undefined
suppress -L/usr/local/lib'
Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
Compile-time options: USE_LARGE_FILES
Built under darwin
Compiled at 03/06/02 16:27:24
@INC:
/System/Library/Perl/darwin
/System/Library/Perl
/Library/Perl/darwin
/Library/Perl
/Library/Perl
/Network/Library/Perl/darwin
/Network/Library/Perl
/Network/Library/Perl
.
[Wed 7:37:56pm ~]%
The problem seems to be related to the dynamic loading of libraries, I
think, but I don't remember what the fix for this was. While installing, I
piped the output to a logfile, so I can provide that if it would help.
During 'make test', I had four hits:
% grep -i failed tests.out
pragma/warnings......FAILED at test 303
lib/db-btree.........FAILED at test 0
lib/db-recno.........FAILED at test 51
lib/posix............FAILED at test 11
Any thoughts? The install clobbered the more-or-less working /usr/lib/perl
that came with the system (I meant for it to end up in /usr/local :( ),
and a lot of the test scripts I'm running [not all -- haven't yet pinned
down where I'm getting the error from] are failing in ways that usually
mention 'dyld' and various '_Perl$foo' symbols.
:(
--
Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.com/chdevers/resume/
