On 12/6/02 at 09:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Wheeler) wrote: > On 6/12/02 7:00 AM, "Phil Dobbin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> claimed: > > > I ran make install with Expat and that went fine but now trying to > get cpan to > > install XML::Parser::Expat presents me with the problem that Perl > can't find > > Expat in /usr/local/lib/ (which is Expat's default via the > recommended [cpan > > advised] sourceforge install). > > I found that I had to install Expat like this: > > cd /usr/local/src/expat-1.95.2 > .../configure > perl -i.bak -p -e \ > 's/LDFLAGS\s*=\s*-static/LDFLAGS=/' examples/Makefile > perl -i.bak -p -e \ > 's/LDFLAGS\s*=\s*-static/LDFLAGS=/' xmlwf/Makefile > make > make install > > And then install XML::Parser like this: > > perl Makefile.PL EXPATLIBPATH=/usr/local/lib \ > EXPATINCPATH=/usr/local/include > make > make test > make install > > Details here: > > http://david.wheeler.net/osx.html
That's great stuff :-) I'm glad somebody else had the same experience of Expat being blind... Lots of good stuff on the web page, too. Many thanks, Regards, Phil.
