Mac Forum / Programming / Perl / September 2003

Dear Wiser Folks,
    I was getting this:
% psync -v
dyld: perl Undefined symbols:

While running a psync backup, I get lots of warnings such as these:
/Volumes/Backup/usr/local/src/perl-5.8.0 : Directory not empty at  
/usr/local/bin/psync line 145.
/Volumes/Backup/Users/david.old/Library/Preferences/

I can't seem to get libxml2 (using libxml2-2.5.1) to install correctly.
I do a ./configure BUILD=darwin
Everything seems to configure correctly. Then when I do a make or a
make install I get :

I gave up trying to add modules to perl 5.6.0 and upgraded rather painlessly
to 5.8.0. Now I get the error below when running any perl scripts:
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:

suppose I had a question about extracting plain text from web pages
with perl. Is there an appropriate list for this sort of questions?
Thanks!
Marco

I've been using psync during my daily script to mirror a lot of data.
I love it, it works great, so I thought. On three different macs psync
has backed up everything.
I'm using lines like:

To those who already house a panther,
does Camelbones (the currently official version, not the 0.3 preview)  
work with it ?
I suppose it has to be recompiled since Perl is not binary-compatible

I'm have trouble adding perl libraries to my OS X machine. I've installed
the developer tools and the gcc updater from August but when running the
command "install bundle::CPAN" I get make errors.
"Warning: prerequisite Test::more failed to load: Can't locate Test/More.pm

Ok, I'll make a new directory inside the cgi-bin, and set it to 777, and try to write to that. A
side note, though. I should be able to write directly to the cgi-bin, though, right? I tried to
set the cgi-bin directory to 777, and was not able to. I received an error, so ...

Getting this error on compile. Had no problems on my Xserve.
In file included from
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/CarbonCore.fram
ework/Headers/CarbonCore.h:113,

So I've been put in charge of setting up and
maintaining our department's new dispatch/switchboard
computer. In trying to keep it clean and in order, I
was hoping, if possible, to be able to give users

I'm looking for any information I can get on using perl on Mac OS X?
Where do I start?
What books are available?
Is there any special sites covering perl and FileMaker on OS X server?

Can someone tell me how to exclude a package from a cpan install?  Often
when I go to install packages on 10.2.6, cpan wants to install perl 5.8.
Unfortunately, I cannot yet upgrade and have to cancel out.

I can't seem to get perl to open more than 254 files.  Is this a
known limitation, or is it a bug?  I can't find any info other than
Solaris had a similar problem (except it was 256 for Solaris) but is
now fixed.

While traversing one of Eudora's subdirectories, I encountered a file
whose name appears to be "Icon\r", as:
  % pwd
  /Applications/Eudora Pro X/Eudora Spelling Checker