Have you installed the development tools?  I'm pretty sure that most of the
stuff you need to compile perl modules, including the header files, is only
installed with the dev tools.

Ian

On 7/29/02 3:51 PM, "tsackett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I'm having no luck installing modules. I've run into two problems.
> 
> 1. When I try to use "perl Makefile.PL" to configure a CPAN module, I
> get the error: "Error: Unable to locate installed Perl libraries or Perl
> source code." Apparently, it cannot find
> /System/Library/Perl/darwin/CORE/perl.h. I have confirmed that the file
> does not exist. Is there something basically wrong with Apple's standard
> installation of Perl for Mac OS X?
> 
> 2. Has anyone successfully configured the CPAN shell to use an FTP
> proxy? I'm on a network that uses the kind of ftp proxy where you first
> connect to the proxy server, then login as
> "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". The CPAN documentation makes it sound
> as if this is a very standard form of proxy. However, After I enter the
> proxy information, it tries to use ftp to download MIRRORS.BY. As far as
> I can tell, it doesn't try to use the proxy, and fails to get the file.
> I thought that there might be a problem because I haven't installed the
> libnet module yet, but I can't install libnet because of problem 1,
> above.
> 
> thanks for any help,
> Tom Sackett
> Seattle, Washington
> 
> 

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