Re: ANNOUNCE: Perl Dev Kit 7.0 Beta 2 available
On 2 feb 2007, at 19.06, kurtz le pirate wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jan Dubois) wrote: I'm happy to announce the release of the Perl Dev Kit 7.0 Beta 2. http://www.activestate.com/products/perl_dev_kit/beta.plex ... seems attractive but : System Requirements * Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger or later * ActivePerl build 816 or later -- -- klp So what? ActiveState Prel for Mac OS X is easy to download. It installs in a subdirectory of /usr/local, so it won't overwrite the existing Apple-built perl. -- Home is not where you are born, but where your heart finds peace - Tommy Nordgren, The dying old crone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Uh-oh, the C compiler 'cc' doesn't seem to be working.
On 28 okt 2006, at 13.00, Joel Rees wrote: PPC Mac Mini, Mac OS X 10.4.8, I'm following along in README.macosx and I've done this: export SDK=/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk and I call ./Configure -Accflags=-nostdinc -b$SDK/user/include/gcc -B$SDK/usr/ lib/gcc -isystem$SDK/usr/include -F$SDK/System/Library/Frameworks - Aldflags=-W1,-syslibroot,$SDK as suggested. I take defaults until it checks the compiler. Here's the what happens there: -- Use which C compiler? [cc] powerpc-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.1: '-b' must come at the start of the command line This message is clearly indicative. You should try putting the -b option first in -Accflags -Accflags=-b$SDK/user/include/gcc -nostdinc -B$SDK/usr/lib/gcc - isystem$SDK/usr/include -F$SDK/System/Library/Frameworks Uh-oh, the C compiler 'cc' doesn't seem to be working. powerpc-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.1: '-b' must come at the start of the command line Uh-oh, the C compiler 'cc' doesn't seem to be working. You need to find a working C compiler. Either (purchase and) install the C compiler supplied by your OS vendor, or for a free C compiler try http://gcc.gnu.org/ I cannot continue any further, aborting. -- The README indicates that the parameters are useful for making perl aware of the SDK, as I understand it, so I'm going to try this without parameters. But I thought I'd go ahead and ask if anyone can confirm that these parameters aren't necessary if I'm not making the parallel install aware of the sdk, or if anyone can give me a hint about what I'm doing. (I've never used such parameters when compiling perl in the past, haven't done an install in a year or so.) There is a possibility I erased part of the SDK when I was intending to move an alias to XCode into the applications folder and forgot that the actual bundle moves when users that can modify the applications folder (admin users) drag and drop wtihout the option key. Also, the notes in README.macosx seem to indicate that shared libraries and threads are now functional. Anyone on the list here using them with (parallel installs of) apache 2 and mod_perl? - This sig is dedicated to the advancement of Nuclear Power Tommy Nordgren [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Writing utf 8 files
How do I write proper utf 8 characters to a file? I write only two characters, and they come out as four garbage characters when I view the file in an editor. - This sig is dedicated to the advancement of Nuclear Power Tommy Nordgren [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Writing utf 8 files
22 jun 2006 kl. 20.15 skrev Sherm Pendley: On Jun 22, 2006, at 1:48 PM, Tommy Nordgren wrote: How do I write proper utf 8 characters to a file? I write only two characters, and they come out as four garbage characters when I view the file in an editor. Quick answer: open FH, :utf8, file; Complete answer: perldoc perluniintro perldoc PerlIO sherm-- Cocoa programming in Perl: http://camelbones.sourceforge.net Hire me! My resume: http://www.dot-app.org I've already tried that. That was what i was doing when I got garbage. - This sig is dedicated to the advancement of Nuclear Power Tommy Nordgren [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Writing utf 8 files
22 jun 2006 kl. 20.29 skrev Tommy Nordgren: 22 jun 2006 kl. 20.15 skrev Sherm Pendley: On Jun 22, 2006, at 1:48 PM, Tommy Nordgren wrote: How do I write proper utf 8 characters to a file? I write only two characters, and they come out as four garbage characters when I view the file in an editor. Quick answer: open FH, :utf8, file; Complete answer: perldoc perluniintro perldoc PerlIO sherm-- Cocoa programming in Perl: http://camelbones.sourceforge.net Hire me! My resume: http://www.dot-app.org I've already tried that. That was what i was doing when I got garbage. I found the problem it is necessary to 1) use the use utf8 pragma; 2) Explicitly write a BOM byte sequence immediately after opening the file. point 2 is where I erred. I expected the BOM to be added automatically, when opening a file for write with the utf-8 encoding. - This sig is dedicated to the advancement of Nuclear Power Tommy Nordgren [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Waiting until Acrobat closes file
On 28 maj 2006, at 01.34, David Cantrell wrote:
On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 12:27:02AM +0200, Tommy Nordgren wrote:
My perl script generates pdf files, and opens them with Acrobat.
How can I wait until Acrobat closes the file, so I can delete it?
system('acroread', 'myfile.pdf');
unlink('myfile.pdf');
There is no 'acroread' , at least not with only the reader installed
if instead you're doing something like ...
system('open', '/Applications/Acrobat.app');
then you'll need to:
wait around until Acrobat appears in the process table;
wait around until that PID disappears;
1. Acrobat may already be running when told to open a document.
2. I would prefer being able to remove the file as soon as it is
closed, keeping the reader
running is preferable, since it has long start up time.
Will it work to:
a) Wait until Acrobat Reader is running
b) Sleep long enough to make sure acrobat has opened the file
c) Open the file in read/write mode, and wait until a write lock can
be aquired
d) Then , close and remove the file
Check out Mac::Processes on the CPAN.
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Waiting until Acrobat closes file
My perl script generates pdf files, and opens them with Acrobat. How can I wait until Acrobat closes the file, so I can delete it? -- Home is not where you are born, but where your heart finds peace - Tommy Nordgren, The dying old crone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Backtick operator, and Unicode
I tried to to parse the output of calling nibtool with the -L option,
in the backtick operator.
Nibtool defaults to utf-16.
Attempting to do a split with the pattern /=/ failed, by not
splitting the input string.
This could be fixed by either;
1) Passing the --utf8 option to nibtool,
and in the perl script specifying
use utf8
2) Pass the -R (macroman encoding option) to nibtool.
Are there any ways to parse nibtool output generated by the backtick
operation,
that don't require hardcoding character encoding used by the perl
script, and
don't require hardcoding the output character encoding of the nibtool
-L command
My Perl script is as follows in the latest version:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use utf8;
if ( @ARGV !=2) {
die Usage: nibfixup Nibfile Applicationname\n ;
}
my $nibfile = $ARGV[0];
my $appname = $ARGV[1];
my ($nibdir,$nibname) = ($nibfile =~ /^(.*\/)?([A-Za-z]+\.nib)$/);
$nibdir = '' unless $nibdir;
#call Nibtool, reading the userinterface strings of the nibfile into
dictionary.
my $dictionary = `/usr/bin/nibtool --utf8 -L $nibfile`;
my @dictionary = split(/\n/,$dictionary);
open (DICT,'','temp.strings') or die Could not open dictionary file
\n;
#replace the word NewApplication by the second comman line parameter
#in the localized strings whereever it occurs.
for my $i (@dictionary) {
my @i = split /=/ , $i;
if (1 == scalar @i) {
print DICT $i,\n;
} else {
if (scalar @i) {
my $j = shift @i;
print DICT $j=;
$j = shift @i;
$j =~ s/NewApplication/$appname/o;
print DICT $j;
for $j (@i) {
print DICT =$j;
}
}
print DICT \n;
}
}
close DICT;
#rename the nib file
system ('/bin/mv' ,$nibfile ,${nibdir}old.$nibname)==0 or die
Could not rename nib file\n;
#use Nibtool to set The application name to correct value in the user
interface
system ('/usr/bin/nibtool' ,'--utf8','-w',$nibfile,'-
d','temp.strings',${nibdir}old.$nibname)
== 0 or die Could not update nibfile\n;
#remove old nib, and temporary dictionary.
system ('/bin/rm', '-rf', ${nibdir}old.$nibname) == 0 or die Could
not remove nib copy\n;
system ('/bin/rm', 'temp.strings') == 0 or die Could not remove
temporary dictionary\n;
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Tommy Nordgren
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Writing Configure scripts in Perl
What are the tools I need to get to be able to build configure scipts in perl. I wan't to be able to automatically determine the set of tools avaible, and generate make files for my projects. Some tools generate a shell script, but I've seen other open source packages where the config script is written in Perl. Home is not where you are born, but where your heart finds peace - Tommy Nordgren, The dying old crone
Any GUI tools that can set execute bit?
Are there any Graphical User Interface Tools that can set the executable bits in the file info on disk? Home is not where you are born, but where your heart finds peace - Tommy Nordgren, The dying old crone
Re: What Perl editor do you recommend?
There is a double clickable version of emacs available. There is a link to it at Apple's sight. Mar 2, 2005 kl. 6:38 PM skrev Ted Zeng: Hi, Thanks for the help here. I am almost finishing my first tool on OS X. I am using TextEdit as the editor. I sometime use Pico, but I am still not comfortable with Unix editor. I know there must be some good editors for Perl. Do you have any recommendation? ted zeng Adobe Systems Home is not where you are born, but where your heart finds peace - Tommy Nordgren, The dying old crone
Building external modules
Where can I find printed docs on how to build external modules on MacOS X? For some reasons perldoc don't work correctly when piping output into the lpr command. All titles/subtitles get duplicated cchhaarraacctteerrss (like the previous word), making the output nearly unreadable. Are there any suitable books on this topic? Home is not where you are born, but where your heart finds peace - Tommy Nordgren, The dying old crone
