Re: CPAN can't write makefiles after perl 5.8.1 reinstall on 10.3.4

2004-07-15 Thread Joel Rees
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

Re: CPAN can't write makefiles after perl 5.8.1 reinstall on 10.3.4

2004-07-15 Thread Sherm Pendley
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?

Re: CPAN can't write makefiles after perl 5.8.1 reinstall on 10.3.4

2004-07-15 Thread Joel Rees
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

Re: CPAN can't write makefiles after perl 5.8.1 reinstall on 10.3.4

2004-07-15 Thread Sherm Pendley
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

2004-07-15 Thread Sherm Pendley
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.

Re: CPAN can't write makefiles after perl 5.8.1 reinstall on 10.3.4

2004-07-15 Thread Robin
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

CPAN can't write makefiles after perl 5.8.1 reinstall on 10.3.4

2004-07-14 Thread Brian Dimeler
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

Re: CPAN can't write makefiles after perl 5.8.1 reinstall on 10.3.4

2004-07-14 Thread Brian Dimeler
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