At 5:39 PM -0400 7/8/2002, Geoffrey F. Green wrote: >On 7/8/02 5:24 PM, "Chaos Golubitsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > >Perl 5.6.1 was released before Mac OS X, so it doesn't account for OS X's >quirks. Thus, it is a bit cranky about installing on Mac OS X, but it can >be done. See: > > http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg00150.html > http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg00895.html > http://duke.usask.ca/~dalglb/macosx/Perl_5.6.html > >The upcoming Perl 5.8.0 will build on Mac OS X without any problems.
You might also take a look at... http://david.wheeler.net/osx.html ....which references the second item above. (I think my results dealing with the locale issues "the right way" were sporadic enough that I just added 'd_setlocale=undef;' to the end of hints/darwin.sh and proceeded from there.) -C [EMAIL PROTECTED]
