Installing SOAP::Lite

2004-11-03 Thread Michael Glaesemann
Hello all! I'm working on installing Bricolage 1.8.2 on Mac OS X 10.3.5 (stock perl v5.8.1-RC3). One of the required modules is SOAP::Lite. However, I'm having make test failures installing it via CPAN (v1.76). It seems that I'm having a problem with MIME::Parser. (Something wrong with MIME

Re: Installing new(er) perl on Jaguar

2004-11-03 Thread Joel Rees
There is a way to get a list, but I don't remember it, and javadoc seems to be interfering with my memory of perldoc right now. Maybe someone can help me here? Umm... a list of what? Perls? whereis perl will do that. If you're in doubt about which of the installed Perls appear first in your

Re: Installing new(er) perl on Jaguar

2004-11-03 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 06:05:05PM -0500, Sherm Pendley wrote: Read the instructions that come with Perl - readme.macosx. Build and install the new Perl using the default layout. This will install everything under /usr/local. Remove /usr/bin/perl and replace it with a symbolic link to

Re: installing scripts using expat/libxml on 10.1.5

2004-11-03 Thread Richard Jolly
On 2 Nov 2004, at 23:22, Paul McCann wrote: Hi Richard, you asked... I'm about to write a number of fairly simple perl scripts. They'll be reading xml files. Unfortunately they've got to be installed on a client machine that uses 10.1.5, owned by a fairly untechnical user. I've always had

Re: Installing new(er) perl on Jaguar

2004-11-03 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Nov 3, 2004, at 6:42 AM, David Cantrell wrote: I do *not* advise removing the perl that comes with OS X. Neither did I. There's a big difference between removing perl and changing which perl is the default. I suggested removing /usr/bin/perl, which by default is just a link to

Re: Installing new(er) perl on Jaguar

2004-11-03 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Nov 3, 2004, at 4:19 AM, Joel Rees wrote: List of installed modules. Autobundle: perl -MCPAN -e autobundle That will create a dated bundle file in .cpan/Bundle - for example, Snapshot_2004_11_03_00.pm for the first snapshot created today. You can then install this bundle under your new Perl

Re: Installing new(er) perl on Jaguar

2004-11-03 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 11:50:07AM -0500, Sherm Pendley wrote: On Nov 3, 2004, at 6:42 AM, David Cantrell wrote: I do *not* advise removing the perl that comes with OS X. Neither did I. There's a big difference between removing perl and changing which perl is the default. I suggested

Re: Installing SOAP::Lite

2004-11-03 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Nov 3, 2004, at 4:06 AM, Michael Glaesemann wrote: I'm working on installing Bricolage 1.8.2 on Mac OS X 10.3.5 (stock perl v5.8.1-RC3). Don't forget about the Bundle::Bricolage bundle on CPAN. Bricolage needs a *huge* number of modules, and the bundle is easier than installing them all

Re: installing scripts using expat/libxml on 10.1.5

2004-11-03 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Nov 2, 2004, at 6:22 PM, Paul McCann wrote: But that still leaves the difficulty of getting XML::LibXML or some of the expat dependent modules to install. No, packaging something for distribution is a piece of cake. Just use a unique installation prefix when you configure things. Use

Re: Installing new(er) perl on Jaguar

2004-11-03 Thread Joel Rees
Instead, install perl in /usr/local/, and make sure that that comes first in your path. That's fine for scripts that you run from a shell, with perl scriptname.pl. Do you run many of your scripts that way? I certainly don't. Most of my scripts depend on the first #! line to choose a Perl.

Errors running perl scripts from Afrus

2004-11-03 Thread Kevin
I started to use Afrus on Mac OS X and get the following errors or warnings below: Subroutine bits redefined at /System/Library/Perl/5.8.1/Strict.pm line 11. Subroutine import redefined at /System/Library/Perl/5.8.1/Strict.pm line 27. Subroutine unimport redefined at

Re: Installing SOAP::Lite

2004-11-03 Thread Michael Glaesemann
Hi Sherm, On Nov 4, 2004, at 2:32 AM, Sherm Pendley wrote: Don't forget about the Bundle::Bricolage bundle on CPAN. Bricolage needs a *huge* number of modules, and the bundle is easier than installing them all one-by-one. Thanks for the advice. I've actually already done that. It took quite a