Mac Forum / Programming / Perl / October 2004

Hi all
Im a newbie in perl, so dont blame....
It seems I have a common problem. I just upgrade from jaguar to panther.
I would like to reinstall a perl proxy, and to use it, I need to install

LWP Net::Server Unicode::String IO::Select

with CPAN. The result is:

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Error: Unable to locate installed Perl libraries or Perl source code.

It is recommended that you install perl in a standard location before
building extensions. Some precompiled versions of perl do not contain
these header files, so you cannot build extensions. In such a case,
please build and install your perl from a fresh perl distribution. It
usually solves this kind of problem.

(You get this message, because MakeMaker could not find
"/System/Library/Perl/5.8.1/darwin-thread-multi-2level/CORE/perl.h")
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Perl -V replies me:
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Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 8 subversion 1 RC3)
configuration:
 Platform:
   osname=darwin, osvers=7.0, archname=darwin-thread-multi-2level
   uname='darwin hampsten 7.0 darwin kernel version 6.0: fri jul 25
16:58:41 pdt 2003;
root:xnu-344.frankd.rootsxnu-344.frankd~objrelease_ppc power macintosh
powerpc '
   config_args='-ds -e -Dprefix=/usr -Dccflags=-g  -pipe
-Dldflags=-Dman3ext=3pm -Duseithreads -Duseshrplib'
   hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
   usethreads=define use5005threads=undef useithreads=define
usemultiplicity=define
   useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
   use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
   usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
 Compiler:
   cc='cc', ccflags ='-g -pipe -pipe -fno-common -DPERL_DARWIN
-no-cpp-precomp -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include',
   optimize='-Os',
   cppflags='-no-cpp-precomp -g -pipe -pipe -fno-common -DPERL_DARWIN
-no-cpp-precomp -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include'
   ccversion='', gccversion='3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build
1495)', gccosandvers=''
   intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=4321
   d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=8
   ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t',
lseeksize=8
   alignbytes=8, prototype=define
 Linker and Libraries:
   ld='MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.3 cc', ldflags ='-L/usr/local/lib'
   libpth=/usr/local/lib /usr/lib
   libs=-ldbm -ldl -lm -lc
   perllibs=-ldl -lm -lc
   libc=/usr/lib/libc.dylib, so=dylib, useshrplib=true,
libperl=libperl.dylib
   gnulibc_version=''
 Dynamic Linking:
   dlsrc=dl_dyld.xs, dlext=bundle, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
   cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags='-bundle -undefined dynamic_lookup
-L/usr/local/lib'

Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
 Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES
PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT
 Locally applied patches:
       RC3
 Built under darwin
 Compiled at Sep 12 2003 19:50:49
 %ENV:
   PERL5LIB="/sw/lib/perl5"
 @INC:
   /sw/lib/perl5
   /System/Library/Perl/5.8.1/darwin-thread-multi-2level
   /System/Library/Perl/5.8.1
   /Library/Perl/5.8.1/darwin-thread-multi-2level
   /Library/Perl/5.8.1
   /Library/Perl
   /Network/Library/Perl/5.8.1/darwin-thread-multi-2level
   /Network/Library/Perl/5.8.1
   /Network/Library/Perl
   .
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I suspect i have to change the @INC, since the headers are located in
System/LibraryPerl/darwin/CORE
But I just dont know how to do that.....
Any idea ?
Thanks
Michel