New Perl-Installation on new OS X

2011-06-08 Thread Marek Stepanek
Hello all! I have a new laptop. Apparently my Perl-Installation has problems. I tried to update all outdated modules with cpanplus; but I get on many, not all, modules error-messages, like: Unable to create a new distribution object for 'HTML::Entities' or format not a

Re: New Perl-Installation on new OS X

2011-06-08 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Marek Stepanek marekstepa...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: I have a new laptop. Congrats! I have a new iMac, so I know the feeling. :-)        1) The complier 'gcc-4.2' is not in your PATH. Add it        to the PATH and try again. OR        2) The compiler isn't

Re: New Perl-Installation on new OS X

2011-06-08 Thread John Delacour
At 16:02 +0200 08/06/2011, Marek Stepanek wrote: ...So, gcc seems to be al right. Is it possible, that the migration assistant has mixed up, 32bit compiled modules with 64bit? Or is there a confusion with the Perl of Fink? Here my Perl: Built under darwin Compiled at Jan 26 2010

Re: New Perl-Installation on new OS X

2011-06-08 Thread Marek Stepanek
On 08.06.2011 17:31, John Delacour wrote: At 16:02 +0200 08/06/2011, Marek Stepanek wrote: ...So, gcc seems to be al right. Is it possible, that the migration assistant has mixed up, 32bit compiled modules with 64bit? Or is there a confusion with the Perl of Fink? Here my Perl: Built under

Re: New Perl-Installation on new OS X

2011-06-08 Thread Marek Stepanek
On 08.06.2011 18:03, Melton Low wrote: xCode 4 should have been included with your new Mac. Check in the Optional Application install disc. Mel Not here in Germany :-( In old times there was XCode on the optional installer DVD. Now there are only toys: iDVD, Sound Jingles, iPhoto ...

Re: New Perl-Installation on new OS X

2011-06-08 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 11:31 AM, John Delacour j...@bd8.com wrote: I think you're going to have trouble until you get rid of everything Fink has installed and everything it's changed in /usr/bin. Fink neither changes nor installs anything in /usr/anything. It's all under /sw. sherm-- --

Re: New Perl-Installation on new OS X

2011-06-08 Thread John Delacour
At 17:55 +0200 08/06/2011, Marek Stepanek wrote: gcc-4.2 was installed with the latest XCode 4.0.2 Is Fink installing into /usr/bin ? Or is it a misunderstanding? I have both gcc-4.0 and gcc-4.2 in /usr/bin but gcc points to gcc-4.0. I have Xcode version 3.2.6 and I see in Get Info that

Re: New Perl-Installation on new OS X

2011-06-08 Thread John Delacour
At 18:16 +0200 08/06/2011, Marek Stepanek wrote: On 08.06.2011 18:03, Melton Low wrote: xCode 4 should have been included with your new Mac. Check in the Optional Application install disc. XCode 4 is only for bleeding-edge developers. Not here in Germany :-( In old times there was XCode

Re: New Perl-Installation on new OS X

2011-06-08 Thread Melton Low
xCode 4 should have been included with your new Mac. Check in the Optional Application install disc. Mel On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Marek Stepanek marekstepa...@yahoo.co.ukwrote: On 08.06.2011 17:31, John Delacour wrote: At 16:02 +0200 08/06/2011, Marek Stepanek wrote: ...So, gcc

Re: New Perl-Installation on new OS X

2011-06-08 Thread Melton Low
I had a similar problem with my new MacBook Pro but I haven't had the time to look into it further. I use MacPort and I ended up deleting everything from MacPort before re-installing everything. As for deleting Perl from /usr/bin that is a VERY BAD IDEA. That came as part of the Apple OS so

Re: New Perl-Installation on new OS X

2011-06-08 Thread rd ackerman
On Jun 8, 2011, at 10:33 AM, John Delacour wrote: At 18:16 +0200 08/06/2011, Marek Stepanek wrote: On 08.06.2011 18:03, Melton Low wrote: xCode 4 should have been included with your new Mac. Check in the Optional Application install disc. XCode 4 is only for bleeding-edge developers.

Re: New Perl-Installation on new OS X

2011-06-08 Thread John Delacour
At 10:54 -0700 08/06/2011, rd ackerman wrote: On Jun 8, 2011, at 10:33 AM, John Delacour wrote: If it's not on the disk you can get it free from http://developer.apple.com/devcenter/mac/index.action provided you are a member -- and this grade of membership is free. xcode4 is only

Re: New Perl-Installation on new OS X

2011-06-08 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 1:16 PM, John Delacour j...@bd8.com wrote: I have been thinking so all day after watching the announcement of iCloud, a complete non-happening designed, like everything Apple, for shop-happy groupees.  It is free, up to a point, once you have bought your latest Mac,

Re: New Perl-Installation on new OS X

2011-06-08 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Melton Low softw.d...@gmail.com wrote: I use MacPort and I ended up deleting everything from MacPort before re-installing everything. A pointless exercise - Like Fink, MacPorts doesn't touch /usr. Everything relevant to MacPorts is found under /opt/local.

Re: New Perl-Installation on new OS X

2011-06-08 Thread John Delacour
At 15:18 -0400 08/06/2011, Sherm Pendley wrote: On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Melton Low softw.d...@gmail.com wrote: I use MacPort and I ended up deleting everything from MacPort before re-installing everything. A pointless exercise - Like Fink, MacPorts doesn't touch /usr. Everything

Re: New Perl-Installation on new OS X

2011-06-08 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 3:40 PM, John Delacour j...@bd8.com wrote: At 15:18 -0400 08/06/2011, Sherm Pendley wrote: On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Melton Low softw.d...@gmail.com wrote:  I use MacPort and I ended up deleting everything from MacPort before  re-installing everything. A

Re: New Perl-Installation on new OS X

2011-06-08 Thread John Delacour
At 16:17 -0400 08/06/2011, Sherm Pendley wrote: No. I'm saying that there are *many* ways to influence @INC without bothering any files under /usr. PERL5LIB, for one. I'm sure that's very clear to everyone who already knows what you are talking about. Are you saying that by editing

Re: New Perl-Installation on new OS X

2011-06-08 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 5:20 PM, John Delacour j...@bd8.com wrote: At 16:17 -0400 08/06/2011, Sherm Pendley wrote: PERL5LIB, for one. I'm sure that's very clear to everyone who already knows what you are talking about.  Are you saying that by editing ~/.bashrc or some such file one could

Re: New Perl-Installation on new OS X

2011-06-08 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Marek Stepanek marekstepa...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: offtopicMy new laptop was a not really cheap: 2600 Euros Ouch! At the current rate, that translates to roughly $3800 USD - $1400 more than the highest-price MacBook Pro in the US store. I wonder, how much of that