Mac Forum / Programming / Perl / October 2006

PPC Mac Mini, Mac OS X 10.4.8, I'm following along in README.macosx  
and I've done this:

export SDK=/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk

and I call

./Configure -Accflags="-nostdinc -b$SDK/user/include/gcc -B$SDK/usr/
lib/gcc -isystem$SDK/usr/include -F$SDK/System/Library/Frameworks" -
Aldflags="-W1,-syslibroot,$SDK"

as suggested. I take defaults until it checks the compiler. Here's  
the what happens there:

--------------------------
Use which C compiler? [cc]
powerpc-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.1: '-b' must come at the start of the  
command line
Uh-oh, the C compiler 'cc' doesn't seem to be working.
powerpc-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.1: '-b' must come at the start of the  
command line
Uh-oh, the C compiler 'cc' doesn't seem to be working.
You need to find a working C compiler.
Either (purchase and) install the C compiler supplied by your OS vendor,
or for a free C compiler try http://gcc.gnu.org/
I cannot continue any further, aborting.
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The README indicates that the parameters are useful for making perl  
aware of the SDK, as I understand it, so I'm going to try this  
without parameters.

But I thought I'd go ahead and ask if anyone can confirm that these  
parameters aren't necessary if I'm not making the parallel install  
aware of the sdk, or if anyone can give me a hint about what I'm  
doing. (I've never used such parameters when compiling perl in the  
past, haven't done an install in a year or so.)

There is a possibility I erased part of the SDK when I was intending  
to move an alias to XCode into the applications folder and forgot  
that the actual bundle moves when users that can modify the  
applications folder (admin users) drag and drop wtihout the option key.

Also, the notes in README.macosx seem to indicate that shared  
libraries and threads are now functional. Anyone on the list here  
using them with (parallel installs of) apache 2 and mod_perl?