Hi Doug,
Just before I create the file I would like to check a few points.
but you should edit that so that the first directory, before the
first separating colon, is the one that perl 5.10 is in
I am not quite sure which is the main Perl folder. /usr/local/bin
contains two Unix executable Perl files — Perl and
Perl 5.10.1. I assume that this should be the first directory.
Which files is PERL5LIB. All the installed modules are stored in /usr/
local/lib/perl5/5.10.1/. Is this the location of
the PERL5LIB. If so, do I need the full path /usr/local/lib/
perl5/5.10.1/ or can I use /usr/local/lib/.
If the above is correct, then the following is what I think I should
write to a plist file.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://
www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>PATH</key>
<string>/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/lib:/opt/local/bin:/opt/
local/sbin</string>
<key>PERL5LIB</key>
<string>/usr/local/lib/perl5</string>
</dict>
</plist>
opt/local/bin and /opt/local/sbin is taken from a .profile created by
MacPorts which
I hope will preserve the links for MacPorts.
Thanks,
Terrence
On 15 Sep 2009, at 04:18, Doug McNutt wrote:
At 01:10 +0100 9/15/09, Mine wrote:
Hi Doug,
Thanks for the info, but I think this possibly way out side my
level of experience.
Would what you have suggested allow get_iplayer find the path to
Perl 5.10.1
when I try to run get_iplayer from the terminal?
If it does then I don't fully understand your instructions.
I assume mkdir $HOME/.MacOSX creates a directory. I tried it but
could not
find the directory. When I used cat > $HOME/.MacOSX/
environment.plist in the
Terminal, it seemed to hang.
When you say "paste the text of the new file here" what text do
you mean?
cat, used that way is waiting for you to paste the text onto the
Terminal screen. The text will become the contents of the
environment.plist file.
The problem is that Apple takes pleasure in making things difficult
for users who might be able to muck something up. Those leading
dots typically identify files that are private to the system. You
can see dotted files with the unix command "ls -a" for list all.
cat stands for concatenate which reads standard input, the terminal
screen, and writes to standard out which the > directs to a file.
You use control-D to terminate the input. I also used cat to
display my environment.plist file. You can see the command that
immediately precedes the text.
But remember that you do have to edit the copy of my file to meet
your needs. It is likely that you need only the PATH part but you
should edit that so that the first directory, before the first
separating colon, is the one that perl 5.10 is in. You probably
don't want my personal bin directory but you might want to have a
PERL5LIB directory which could also contain modules that would be
found wherever perl came from. The /bin and /usr/bin items are
pretty much required. cat, for instance, gets found that way.
The file format is xml. Entries are in pairs of lines <key> defines
the name and <string> declares the corresponding value.
You might well have a text editor, bbedit or text wrangler (its
free cousin) come to mind, that would have no problems dealing
with directories whose names start with a dot. That would be fine
in place of unix tool cat.
You could also use Apple's plist editor but I suspect it would
confuse you more than it would help. I dislike it.
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