On Monday, July 8, 2002, at 11:24 PM, 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". This is quite a normal behaviour for 5.6.1 on OS X, as 5.6.1 is older. > Has anyone seen anything like this in a compile? Is my OS X install > simply broken? Any advice or pointers would be muchly appreciated. There's nothing wrong with your setup. You either need the appropriate patches for 5.6.1 or (as I would suggest ;-)) get the latest Perl 5.8 Release Candidate (currently RC2). These are test releases for the upcoming perl5.8, which compiles out of the box (with only a couple tests failing) on your system. > Thanks in advance. > > -Chaos Kay
