Re: Test Mac::Carbon build for me?

2002-12-13 Thread Chris Nandor
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Williams) wrote: I've been working on the ExtUtils::ParseXS module, which is designed to render this approach obsolete. It's on CPAN right now, maybe it could be used here instead of custom/version-specific xsubpps? The goal is to

Perl Wrestling Federation Bout: 5.6 vs. 5.8

2002-12-13 Thread David H. Adler
I figure it's time I bit the bullet and installed 5.8. Having completely blown it last time, however, I have a question. Have we come to any kind of concensus as to whether it's better to replace 5.6 with 5.8 or to stash 5.8 somewhere out of the way and leave the Apple installed 5.6 where it is?

Re: Perl Wrestling Federation Bout: 5.6 vs. 5.8

2002-12-13 Thread David H. Adler
On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 02:29:41PM -0500, John Siracusa wrote: On 12/13/02 2:16 PM, David H. Adler wrote: Have we come to any kind of concensus as to whether it's better to replace 5.6 with 5.8 or to stash 5.8 somewhere out of the way and leave the Apple installed 5.6 where it is?

Re: Perl Wrestling Federation Bout: 5.6 vs. 5.8

2002-12-13 Thread David Wheeler
On Friday, December 13, 2002, at 11:48 AM, David H. Adler wrote: I was kind of guessing that. Is there any favored place? Should I just punt and use /opt ? Up to you. I favor /usr/local, which isn't used by Mac OS X. So you should be safe there. David -- David Wheeler

Re: Perl Wrestling Federation Bout: 5.6 vs. 5.8

2002-12-13 Thread John Siracusa
On 12/13/02 2:48 PM, David H. Adler wrote: On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 02:29:41PM -0500, John Siracusa wrote: On 12/13/02 2:16 PM, David H. Adler wrote: Have we come to any kind of concensus as to whether it's better to replace 5.6 with 5.8 or to stash 5.8 somewhere out of the way and leave the

Re: Perl Wrestling Federation Bout: 5.6 vs. 5.8

2002-12-13 Thread John Siracusa
On 12/13/02 3:50 PM, Andy Lester wrote: It's better to leave the Apple-provided 5.6.0 where it is and install 5.8.0 elsewhere unless you really know what you're doing. Why? Like I said in my post: On 12/13/02 2:29 PM, John Siracusa wrote: Remember that OS X uses perl as part of its normal

new to unix: basic help

2002-12-13 Thread Riccardo Perotti
Hi all: It's almost embarrassing to write to this list (I have books by of some of you guys: Randal, Chris, etc.) and I regret to waste your time in something so trivial as this, but I'm new to Programming (I'm a musician; took up 2 programming 2 years ago), new to Perl (1.5 years) and new to

Re: new to unix: basic help

2002-12-13 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Friday, December 13, 2002, at 04:54 PM, Riccardo Perotti wrote: Can somebody please supply with the actual commands involved in The usual make, test, install routine, starting from the folder where my downloaded software would be? The whole routine is pretty well covered in the

New Perl install

2002-12-13 Thread Jeffrey Melloy
After getting a new powerbook, I attempted to install perl 5.8.0 according to the instructions at apple.com. Everything appeared to work correctly, (configure, make, make install and so forth not having any problems), but now fink returns: dyld: perl Undefined symbols: _Perl_safefree

Re: new to unix: basic help

2002-12-13 Thread Rich Michaela
Puneet Kishor wrote: His seven tips. All very good. I will add just a couple more. Sign up at www.perlmonks.org. It has even more of the names in the perl community, than this list. It has been an invaluable resource for me. Perlmonks has a broad and deep dicsussion forum (actually several