On 8/7/02 at 17:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chaos Golubitsky) wrote: > Hello, > > I'm running mac os X (10.1.5), and am trying to install perl 5.6.1. > i downloaded and unpacked stable.tar.gz from perl.com. There seem > to be no special instructions for mac os X at all in the distro, > so i thought i could just run Configure. > > It has died horribly from several errors, the gist of which seem > to be that it can't find the makefile. My best guess is that os > X's case-insensitivity misses somewhere - the makefile winds up > being named "makefile", but something within Configure or the > makefile itself won't proceed without "Makefile". > > Has anyone seen anything like this in a compile? Is my OS X install > simply broken? Any advice or pointers would be muchly appreciated.
I used these instructions: <http://duke.usask.ca/~dalglb/macosx/Perl_5.6.html> Worked fine for me. Regards, Phil.
