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Mac Forum / Programming / Perl / January 2008Leopard Upgrade Killed my Modules
Hello All, I upgraded to Mac OSX 10.5, using the upgrade option, and the modules I downloaded from CPAN are now missing. Bummer. No problem though, I am not under a huge time problem and it would be good to get a little practice in. So I have a couple of questions. First, where would a safe place be to my modules? Second, I have started installing a few of my favorite modules and I am getting an error message from make. The error message is: make: *** No rule to make target `/System/Library/Perl/5.8.8/darwin- thread-multi-2level/CORE/config.h', needed by `Makefile'. Stop. What is happening here? And how best to solve it? Thank you for your time. Elton ========================================================= NOVA 505 W. Olive Ave. Suite 550 Elton Hughes (MIS/IT) Sunnyvale CA 94086 Phone: 408-730-7235 Fax: 408-730-7643 --------------------------------------------------------- > Hello All, > > I upgraded to Mac OSX 10.5, using the upgrade option, and the modules > I downloaded from CPAN are now missing. Bummer. No problem though, I > am not under a huge time problem and it would be good to get a little > practice in. Leopard includes an upgrade to a newer Perl 5.8.8, so it's a good idea to reinstall your CPAN modules anyway. XS modules, in particular, are probably linked against older OS SDKs and Perl versions. > So I have a couple of questions. First, where would a safe place be to > my modules? Wherever ExtUtils::MakeMaker puts them. Whether you're driving it manually, or with the CPAN tool, Perl already knows where to install its own modules. So by default, the final "sudo make install" will do the Right Thing(tm). > Second, I have started installing a few of my favorite > modules and I am getting an error message from make. The error message [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > What is happening here? And how best to solve it? Have you installed all the latest Xcode updates for Leopard? sherm-- If by "safe," you mean "where they will stick around when I upgrade to Mac OS X 10.6 in 18 months," then I'd say install your own copy of perl somewhere and add your modules to that. perl 5.9 looks like it has some nice features anyway. I haven't tried installing my own copy of perl, but would be more than happy for you to try and tell me how you got past any issues :) John > So I have a couple of questions. First, where would a safe place be > to my modules? > perl 5.9 looks like it has some nice features anyway. 5.10 is out now. Unfortunately it was just a bit too late to make it into Leopard.  SignatureDavid Cantrell | Nth greatest programmer in the world Eye have a spelling chequer / It came with my pea sea It planely marques four my revue / Miss Steaks eye kin knot sea. Eye strike a quay and type a word / And weight for it to say Weather eye am wrong oar write / It shows me strait a weigh. > Hello All, > > I upgraded to Mac OSX 10.5, using the upgrade option, and the modules > I downloaded from CPAN are now missing. You probably had them installed in Mac OS X's Perl directories. I install my own perls (and have many installed) each with their own roots: $ ls -l /usr/local/perls drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 170 Dec 2 12:13 perl-5.10.0-rc2 drwxrwxr-x 5 brian wheel 170 Mar 14 2007 perl-5.6.2 drwxrwxr-x 5 brian wheel 170 Sep 22 13:02 perl-5.6.2-dist drwxrwxr-x 6 brian wheel 204 Apr 10 2007 perl-5.8.8-for-pugs drwxr-xr-x 5 brian wheel 170 Feb 22 2007 perl-5.8.8-threaded drwxr-xr-x 4 brian wheel 136 Feb 22 2007 perl-5.8.8-threaded-debugging drwxr-xr-x 5 brian wheel 170 Feb 26 2007 perl-5.9.4 drwxrwxr-x 5 brian wheel 170 Aug 19 01:42 perl-5.9.5 drwxrwxr-x 5 brian wheel 170 Oct 7 18:45 perl-5.9.5-for-kp6 drwxrwxr-x 5 brian wheel 170 Sep 30 17:16 perl4 drwxr-xr-x 24 brian brian 816 Mar 13 2007 perlbench-0.93 I think have links in /usr/local/bin to each of the interpreters I like to use: $ ls -l /usr/local/bin/perl* -rwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 1103676 Apr 9 2007 /usr/local/bin/perl lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 47 Dec 2 12:44 /usr/local/bin/perl5.10.0 -> /usr/local/perls/perl-5.10.0-rc2/bin/perl5.10.0 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 41 Aug 16 00:00 /usr/local/bin/perl5.6.2 -> /usr/local/perls/perl-5.6.2/bin/perl5.6.2 -rwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 1103676 Apr 9 2007 /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.8 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 41 Sep 29 14:38 /usr/local/bin/perl5.9.5 -> /usr/local/perls/perl-5.9.5/bin/perl5.9.5 When I want to install modules, I use the right interpreter with cpan(1): $ perl5.10.0 cpan Foo Bar brian d foy wrote: >> Hello All, >> [quoted text clipped - 38 lines] > > $ perl5.10.0 cpan Foo Bar Hey brian, Do you typically just take the defaults when compiling Perl? Robert > Hey brian, > > Do you typically just take the defaults when compiling Perl? Nope! You have to change the install locations! brian d foy wrote: >> Hey brian, >> >> Do you typically just take the defaults when compiling Perl? > > Nope! You have to change the install locations! : ) I deserved that. Outside of changing the install locations; do you just take the defaults? Robert > brian d foy wrote: > > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > I deserved that. Outside of changing the install locations; do you just > take the defaults? it depends on why I'm compiling it. I'll usually compile a given release three times to get one that's threaded, one that is debugging, and one that has neither of those. It really depends on what sort of interpreter you want. I do a lot of research, so I have different needs than someone who is just moving bits, who would have different needs that a CPAN Tester, etc. |
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