On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]>wrote:
> > On Oct 14, 2009, at 10:30, Blake Farman wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> >> On Oct 14, 2009, at 09:23, Blake Farman wrote: >>> >>> I've had some trouble lately getting Perl to install properly with >>>> macports (I need macports to install it since it's a dep for several >>>> packages I wish to install). I've included the output from port around >>>> where the install hangs below. I'm not sure why, but it seems that the >>>> perl >>>> installer isn't looking anywhere for my c lib. I know I have one, and I >>>> even recently upgraded the perl install in my base system without any >>>> troubles, >>>> >>> >>> How do you mean, upgraded the perl install in your base system? >>> >> >> I built perl from source, uninstalled the old version (in /usr) and >> installed the new version where the old one was. >> > > That's what I thought you meant. It's probably not a good idea to mess with > software in /usr because that was all provided by Apple. Not only is it > probably integral to the proper functioning of your operating system, Apple > believes it is in control of updating those components and might wipe out > your changes in a future OS update. Better install your own versions of > software elsewhere. > > > but port can't seem to manage to figure things out. I'm a recent mac >>>> convert (coming from Gentoo) and I'm not terribly familiar with macports, >>>> so >>>> I'm a little lost on how to fix this one myself. If anyone could give me >>>> some idea of how to fix this, I'd be eternally grateful. >>>> >>>> ---> Computing dependencies for perl5.. >>>> ---> Configuring perl5.8 >>>> ... >>>> Operating system name? [sysv] >>>> Operating system version? [9.8.0] >>>> Installation prefix to use? (~name ok) [/opt/local] >>>> ... >>>> Any additional ld flags (NOT including libraries)? >>>> [-L/opt/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib] >>>> ... >>>> Checking for GNU C Library... >>>> Shall I use /usr/bin/nm to extract C symbols from the libraries? [y] >>>> I can't seem to find your C library. I've looked in the following >>>> places: >>>> >>> >>> I see you're running Mac OS X 10.5.8. What version of Xcode is installed? >>> The latest version for Leopard is 3.1.4. >>> >> >> I'm using 3.1.13 >> > > I assume you mean either 3.1.1 or 3.1.3. :) Either of those is probably > fine. > > I don't know why perl wouldn't be able to find your C library. What > "following places" did it say it looked for the C library in? > > I see one other report of this problem, which was closed as "worksforme" > after the reporter provided no additional details: > > http://trac.macports.org/ticket/19244 > > Are you able to install other ports? Try something simple like expat or > zlib. > > Er, yeah, 3.1.3. Other ports work just fine, it's only Perl that's giving me trouble. I found that bug report as well, but didn't find anything useful in there. As far as "following places" goes, it doesn't list any (which I thought was kinda odd...)--it just hangs there forever. -- Blake Farman
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