On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Alex Robinson wrote: > I really don't have anything much to contribute to this - merely more > questions to add to the pile
The more the merrier :/ > > % 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 > > Well, as per the notes on upgrading to 5.6.1, these tests are known and > expected to fail, and apparently (or so the list told me when I asked) > without any harmful effects. Well, trying to test the NMS scripts, I noticed that the Posix bug -- this with the default 5.6.0 install -- was messing up date formatting. This leads me to think that Perl is just inheriting an OS level bug. I think. But then /bin/date works okay, so... *shrug* > I went ahead and upgraded but did so 'manually' rather than using CPAN. <aol /> Otherwise I followed Bob Dalgleish's directions pretty closely. > Nor did I try to make it install in anywhere other than the default > location. I took the approach of, well if Apple's upgrade breaks it I'll > reinstall at that point. [0] Right -- I was left wondering if reapplying the 10.1 install would at least restore it to a working 5.6.0, but I'd rather not do that... > http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg00895.html? It looks like those directions are substantially identical to the ones at http://duke.usask.ca/~dalglb/macosx/Perl_5.6.html, aside from a slight difference in how they go about establishing environment variables. > > @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 > > . > > This bit concerns me though. Why are paths getting doubled up. My @INC > has the same symptoms (duplicates marked with *): Moreover, does it make any sense for a home machine to have /Network? > Does it matter? And if it does, how does one go about manually editing > the @INC list? Good question. I was wondering how to do that too. It can be overridden for any given script, but how do you change it globally? [Footnote deleted, but I <aol/> it, Alex. Conflicting dependencies from all these installation methods have me really nervous...] -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.com/chdevers/resume/
