Re: CPAN can't write makefiles after perl 5.8.1 reinstall on 10.3.4
On 2004.7.15, at 06:43 AM, Brian Dimeler wrote: Hi, I was having trouble installing LWP on the version of Perl that came with our office iMac (running OS X 10.3.4) and therefore I reinstalled Perl as per the suggestion of CPAN, using the guide at http://developer.apple.com/internet/opensource/perl.html . my, oh, my. Would someone else take a look at that page and tell me whether they agree with me that it looks like some summer intern at Apple has kind of laid a little land mine in there, maybe thinking he was bringing the page up to date with Panther? ...
Re: CPAN can't write makefiles after perl 5.8.1 reinstall on 10.3.4
On Jul 15, 2004, at 9:14 AM, Joel Rees wrote: Would someone else take a look at that page and tell me whether they agree with me that it looks like some summer intern at Apple has kind of laid a little land mine in there, maybe thinking he was bringing the page up to date with Panther? Absolutely. I wish Apple would take that page down - it was broken even for Jaguar. The latest Perl (5.8.4) comes with a readme.macosx file. Please, read and follow those instructions. Apple's instructions may be of interest to historians, but they have no relevance to the current Mac OS X. sherm--
Re: CPAN can't write makefiles after perl 5.8.1 reinstall on 10.3.4
Would someone else take a look at that page and tell me whether they agree with me that it looks like some summer intern at Apple has kind of laid a little land mine in there, maybe thinking he was bringing the page up to date with Panther? Absolutely. I wish Apple would take that page down - it was broken even for Jaguar. What I'm wondering about is this: --- A quick trip to Jaguar’s Terminal showed me that this version didn’t make it into the default install: [cpu:~] user% perl -v This is perl, v5.8.1-RC3 built for darwin-thread-multi-2level --- I'm supposed to believe that little exchange was on a default Jaguar install? The latest Perl (5.8.4) comes with a readme.macosx file. Please, read and follow those instructions. Apple's instructions may be of interest to historians, but they have no relevance to the current Mac OS X. I note the original was contributed. Maybe it's time to contribute a new one. I wonder if I kept any notes when I did the parallel install of 5.8.4 on this Jaguar box. -- Joel Rees Opinions are like armpits. We all have two, and they all smell, but we really don't want the other guy to get rid of his.
Re: CPAN can't write makefiles after perl 5.8.1 reinstall on 10.3.4
On Jul 15, 2004, at 10:10 AM, Joel Rees wrote: I note the original was contributed. Maybe it's time to contribute a new one. I did. It's titled readme.macosx, and it's part of the standard Perl distribution now. ;-) sherm--
Re: CPAN can't write makefiles after perl 5.8.1 reinstall on 10.3.4
On Jul 15, 2004, at 10:10 AM, Joel Rees wrote: I'm supposed to believe that little exchange was on a default Jaguar install? Meh. Looks to me like the update is living up to the quality standard set by the original. Apple, just shoot that page like a lame horse. Put it out of our misery. sherm--
Re: CPAN can't write makefiles after perl 5.8.1 reinstall on 10.3.4
On 15 Jul 2004, at 06:43, Brian Dimeler wrote: I can't install --anything-- with CPAN. Any time it gets to the Writing makefile for whatever.. step I get a -- NOT OK, oddly enough I had the same problem with a just-out-of-the-box iBook trying to install Net::FTP with CPAN. I ended up cd-ing to the CPAN directory and doing a manual make there (make; make test; make install). Specs: OSX Mac OS X 10.3.4 (7H63) perl, v5.8.1-RC3 built for darwin-thread-multi-2level Robin
CPAN can't write makefiles after perl 5.8.1 reinstall on 10.3.4
Hi, I was having trouble installing LWP on the version of Perl that came with our office iMac (running OS X 10.3.4) and therefore I reinstalled Perl as per the suggestion of CPAN, using the guide at http://developer.apple.com/internet/opensource/perl.html . Since doing so, not only can't I install LWP, I can't install --anything-- with CPAN. Any time it gets to the Writing makefile for whatever.. step I get a -- NOT OK, followed by the predictable failure of the make and make install steps. Perl itself had installed fine (I used the the Mac-preferred directories for installation), and I had installed the XCode Developer Tools before it. As far as I know there's nothing unusual about my configuration, and I don't believe Perl had even been used before I attempted this stuff. Somebody else has GOT to have encountered this problem before...
Re: CPAN can't write makefiles after perl 5.8.1 reinstall on 10.3.4
I installed 5.8.1 over the previous version... which I believe was also 5.8.1, but I was given to understand (by CPAN, when it first told me it couldn't install LWP), that this was a 'precompiled' version and that I might have better luck downloading and building anew. Sorry I didn't have some output in the first message, my mail program is across the room on another computer ;) Here's what perl -V has to say: Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 8 subversion 1) configuration: Platform: osname=darwin, osvers=7.4.0, archname=darwin-2level uname='darwin feaart.local 7.4.0 darwin kernel version 7.4.0: wed may 12 16:58:24 pdt 2004; root:xnuxnu-517.7.7.obj~7release_ppc power macintosh powerpc ' config_args='-de -Dprefix=/usr [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]' hint=previous, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=undef useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef Compiler: cc='cc', ccflags ='-pipe -fno-common -DPERL_DARWIN -no-cpp-precomp -fno-strict-aliasing', optimize='-Os', cppflags='-no-cpp-precomp -pipe -fno-common -DPERL_DARWIN -no-cpp-precomp -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fno-common -DPERL_DARWIN -no-cpp-precomp -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fno-common -DPERL_DARWIN -no-cpp-precomp -fno-strict-aliasing' ccversion='', gccversion='3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1495)', gccosandvers='' intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=4321 d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=8 ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8 alignbytes=8, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.3 cc', ldflags ='' libpth=/usr/lib libs=-ldbm -ldl -lm -lc perllibs=-ldl -lm -lc libc=/usr/lib/libc.dylib, so=dylib, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a gnulibc_version='' Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_dyld.xs, dlext=bundle, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' ' cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags=' -bundle -undefined dynamic_lookup' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: USE_LARGE_FILES Built under darwin Compiled at Jul 14 2004 16:09:00 @INC: /System/Library/Perl/5.8.1/darwin-2level /System/Library/Perl/5.8.1 /Library/Perl/5.8.1/darwin-2level /Library/Perl/5.8.1 /Library/Perl /Network/Library/Perl/5.8.1/darwin-2level /Network/Library/Perl/5.8.1 /Network/Library/Perl The Ghost wrote: Did you install over the previous perl version? Did you install 5.8.4 or 5.8.1? What's the output of perl -V? On Jul 14, 2004, at 4:43 PM, Brian Dimeler wrote: Hi, I was having trouble installing LWP on the version of Perl that came with our office iMac (running OS X 10.3.4) and therefore I reinstalled Perl as per the suggestion of CPAN, using the guide at http://developer.apple.com/internet/opensource/perl.html . Since doing so, not only can't I install LWP, I can't install --anything-- with CPAN. Any time it gets to the Writing makefile for whatever.. step I get a -- NOT OK, followed by the predictable failure of the make and make install steps. Perl itself had installed fine (I used the the Mac-preferred directories for installation), and I had installed the XCode Developer Tools before it. As far as I know there's nothing unusual about my configuration, and I don't believe Perl had even been used before I attempted this stuff. Somebody else has GOT to have encountered this problem before...
