On 9/26/06, at 11:56 AM -0400, Sherm Pendley wrote:
> I use 5.8.6. My scripts run fine with it, and why fix what ain't
> broke?
I just installed 5.8.8 in /usr/local. It went very smoothly and Perl 5.8.8
seems to work fine.
Except that it can't see the packages in /System/Library/Perl/5.8.6 that I use
all the time. Stuff like
Date::Format
Date::Parse
LWP
...
I tried the 5.8.8 script
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use lib "/System/Library/Perl/5.8.6";
for (@INC) {
print "$_\n";
}
#use Date::Format;
It shows @INC as
/System/Library/Perl/5.8.6
/Volumes/VTN Docs/ My Perl/Tests
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/darwin-2level
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/darwin-2level
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl
.
Since Date/Format.pm is in /System/Library/Perl/5.8.6/,
I figured that I could use it by uncommenting the
#use Date::Format;
line. No way. Perl 5.8.8 still can't use Date::Format:
Can't locate Date/Format.pm in @INC ...
As you can see not much of a systems person. I haven't any idea how to
straighten this problem out. I think I'll take Sherm Pendleys's advice and
stick with 5.8.6.
Regards,
Vic
