Re: Cannot load DBD::MySQL - Can't locate connnect.al

2004-07-15 Thread Bill Birkett
For one reason or another, I've decided to install DBI/DBD on my laptop. In attempting to do that, I've run across a few problems and questions. Here are the steps I followed to install mysql, DBI, and DBD::mysql successfully. I'm running OS X 10.3.4 on a PowerBook, and did this install just a

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: Cannot load DBD::MySQL - Can't locate connnect.al

2004-07-15 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Jul 15, 2004, at 8:15 AM, Bill Birkett wrote: 5. Now, you can use CPAN to compile and install 'DBD::mysql'. Type the command 'install DBD::mysql' as with DBI. The software will compile successfully (after first compiling some prerequisites), and pass most of its tests. But the process will

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.

MIME-tools 5.411a on 10.2.8 vs 10.3.4

2004-07-15 Thread Pascal Oberndoerfer
Hello all. I used to install MIME-tools 5.411a via the CPAN shell on MacOS X 10.2.8 (and 10.1.5) without any problems. Trying to do the same on MacOS X 10.3.4 ends with an error while doing 'make test'. The error can be seen in Ref.tlog: --- 1..50 [...] Trying

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

Re: MIME-tools 5.411a on 10.2.8 vs 10.3.4

2004-07-15 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Jul 15, 2004, at 10:31 AM, Pascal Oberndoerfer wrote: I used to install MIME-tools 5.411a via the CPAN shell on MacOS X 10.2.8 (and 10.1.5) without any problems. Trying to do the same on MacOS X 10.3.4 ends with an error while doing 'make test'. The error can be seen in Ref.tlog: It looks

Re: MIME-tools 5.411a on 10.2.8 vs 10.3.4

2004-07-15 Thread Pascal Oberndoerfer
Sherm Pendley at [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Jul 15, 2004, at 10:31 AM, Pascal Oberndoerfer wrote: I used to install MIME-tools 5.411a via the CPAN shell on MacOS X 10.2.8 (and 10.1.5) without any problems. Trying to do the same on MacOS X 10.3.4 ends with an error while doing 'make test'.

Re: MIME-tools 5.411a on 10.2.8 vs 10.3.4

2004-07-15 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Jul 15, 2004, at 11:58 AM, Pascal Oberndoerfer wrote: Scanning through the results at http://testers.cpan.org/show/MIME-tools.html#MIME-tools-5.411a this seems to be related to 5.8.1 (RC1?). It does work with 5.8.0 (as supplied with 10.2.8). And the error doesn't seem to occur with 5.8.4 e.g.

Mason and undefined symbols error

2004-07-15 Thread Andrew Brosnan
Hello, I need some help troubleshooting an 'Undefined symbols' error. I'm trying to get Mason/mod_perl/Apache to install and work properly. Currently I am running Mac OS X 10.2.8. I first installed Perl v5.8.4. (I still have the Perl 5.6 installation that comes from Apple.) I installed Apache

Re: Mac::Glue and Address Book

2004-07-15 Thread Ken Williams
Thanks, Chris - this will give me enough info to do what I need to do, I'm sure. Hopefully my Mac::AddressBookMerger won't be too far behind... my wife needs it to merge the addresses from our various address lists into one place. -Ken On Jul 14, 2004, at 3:54 PM, Chris Nandor wrote: Hope

Re: Mason and undefined symbols error

2004-07-15 Thread Do Hyun Kim
Hello Andrew, I had similar problems when getting Perl 5.8.4 / Apache / mod_perl to work. It stems from the fact that OS X really is happier when you build a dynamic libperl (in fact, thats the way the shipped version of Perl on OS X is) So, the way I fixed this was to recompile Perl with

Re: Mason and undefined symbols error

2004-07-15 Thread Andrew Brosnan
Hello, Sorry to be a pest, but I'm rather confused by these 'undefined symbol' errors. Yes, I have two versions of Perl installed, but they are in different locations. Also, they have no common directories in their respective @INC (except '.'). I am further confused by posts in the archive and

Re: Mason and undefined symbols error

2004-07-15 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Jul 15, 2004, at 2:44 PM, Andrew Brosnan wrote: I am further confused by posts in the archive and elsewhere. Some seem to say, 'Find the old offending libraries and remove them.' While others seem to say, 'Don't mess with Apple's version of Perl. Install a second version instead.' So which

Re: Mason and undefined symbols error

2004-07-15 Thread Andrew Brosnan
On 7/15/04 at 2:53 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sherm Pendley) wrote: ... But that is not the case here. You're not building an ordinary module - you're building mod_perl. Do Hyun Kim's answer in this case is appropriate - try building your Perl with a dynamic libperl instead of the default

Re: Mason and undefined symbols error

2004-07-15 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Jul 15, 2004, at 3:15 PM, Andrew Brosnan wrote: I'll try that next. I had opted not to build mod_perl as a DSO since the Mason book specifically recommends against it That's a different question. You could try building Perl with a dynamic libperl, and still build mod_perl as a static Apache

Re: Mason and undefined symbols error

2004-07-15 Thread Joseph Alotta
This might be a little out of our developed world mindset, but I have heard numerous missionaries report that people in their host countries will do the exorcism first off on all kinds of equipment, especially cars and trucks and generators and household appliances. The general conclusion is that

Re: Mason and undefined symbols error

2004-07-15 Thread David Wheeler
On Jul 15, 2004, at 2:52 PM, Ken Williams wrote: I know of no problems with DSO mod_perl Mason on OS X. You should be safe using it, assuming you can get it to work in the first place. The problems we referred to in the book were mostly on a couple flaky distributions of Linux. Actually, I

Re: Mason and undefined symbols error

2004-07-15 Thread David Wheeler
On Jul 15, 2004, at 3:01 PM, David Wheeler wrote: On Panther, I get: % /usr/bin/perl5.8.1 -V:usemymalloc usemymalloc='n'; So it's probably usable. Actually, to be more specific: % /usr/bin/perl5.8.1 -V:bincompat5005 -V:usemymalloc bincompat5005='UNKNOWN'; usemymalloc='n'; So it should