Re: LWP

2002-08-20 Thread Nathan Torkington
Phil Dobbin writes: Has anyone submitted a patch to Gisle that checks for a case-insensitive filesystem and offers to install the aliases as lwp-head lwp-get lwp-post instead of HEAD, GET, and POST? No but have thought often about it (over three machines). Any pointers appreciated and I'll

Re: Definitive Mac OS X Perl 5.8/CPAN installation instructions? (Solved)

2002-08-20 Thread drieux
On Monday, August 19, 2002, at 09:10 , ellem wrote: On Monday, August 19, 2002, at 11:22 PM, Sky Lemon wrote: I guess I had some aversion to it since I remember reading somewhere in the Fink pages that it's not a good idea to install stuff in /usr/local. for fink stuff yes for things you

Re: Definitive Mac OS X Perl 5.8/CPAN installation instructions? (Solved)

2002-08-20 Thread Sandor W. Sklar
On Tuesday, August 20, 2002, at 07:27 AM, drieux wrote: On Monday, August 19, 2002, at 09:10 , ellem wrote: On Monday, August 19, 2002, at 11:22 PM, Sky Lemon wrote: I guess I had some aversion to it since I remember reading somewhere in the Fink pages that it's not a good idea to

Mounting a Windows Filesystem

2002-08-20 Thread ellem
Here's the code: mrsparkle ellem ~/code $ more mnt.pl #! /usr/bin/perl use warnings ; $mount = `mount -t smbfs //homer/root /Volumes/homer` or die Cannot mount; $! ; print Mounted! ; Here's the unexpected output: mrsparkle ellem ~/code $ sudo perl mnt.pl Name main::mount used only once:

Reverting to 5.6.1

2002-08-20 Thread David H. Adler
So, I made the mistake of building 5.8.0 before all the possible wackiness inherent in that was apparent. Silly me. So, I'm trying to figure out if I can kill off 5.8.0 and reinstall 5.6.1 with less trouble than getting 5.8.0 to work would be. Would there be more to it than killing the 5.8.0

Packages / CPAN broken?

2002-08-20 Thread Ric Phillips
I'm new to this list, and 'new' to PERL on OSX - though I've had some years hacking around on the Windows version. I was using the default set up fine until I wanted to install a new module - Authen::Smb to be specific. So I followed the directions for configuring CPAN on the Apple web site and

Re: Reverting to 5.6.1

2002-08-20 Thread David H. Adler
On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 11:17:38PM -0400, Sky Lemon wrote: Well, I think you've isolated the problems. :-) Which raises a new question: are these problems that are just inherent to installing 5.8.0 on OS X, or will these issues perhaps be resolved at some point in the future? If you