Mac Forum / Programming / Perl / July 2004

I posted the following last week but never got any response.  So I'm reposting
with hopes that those of you who are more experienced might have an idea of what
is going on . . .
I'm trying to install all the modules listed in

So I'm using Mac::Glue to talk to iTunes. I've got this line that
works in AppleScript:
play some track of library playlist 1 whose database id is x -- (
where x is a known db id. )

I am just learning to use Perl on OS 10.3. I am not an experienced
Unix programmer, so I am probably doing something very basically
wrong.
My first "Hello World" script is not executing. I created a Plain

Dear Warren, Marc, Clark, Eddy:
SoccerDirector is ready for the division heads to use. Writing the User Guide
resulted in some more features being added. I think I probably spent more
time on it than I should have, so I'm happy to hand it off now and move on to

I am using XML::LibXML and so far did all the testing on my Linux web
server (meaning that I had to be online to test). Now I would like to
set my Mac up for local development - is it possible to install
XML::LibXML on a Mac (Panther)? Can I just go ahead and install it from

Sorry if this is off-topic, but I seem to recall
sometime fairly recently (less than a year, more than
a few weeks) someone mentioned a way to "autofind" the
path to perl on the shebang line so you don't need to

When I get a record from the Address Book like so:
  use Mac::Glue ':all';
  my $ab = Mac::Glue->new('Address Book');
  my $person = $ab->obj( people => whose(AND =>

I think I am getting somewhere.  Hard to say at this point.  (I have
managed some spectacular crashes.)
I am assuming that PerlObjCBridge does not work with CamelBones?  It
seems that way.

Despite running 10.3.4 (with perl 5.8.1-RC3), I'm still using perl
5.8.0, which I installed in /usr/local/bin long before I upgraded to
Panther. I have a couple of configuration questions about managing
the two versions (and no time to re-install dozens of modules against

I was very impressed by Pashua, which allowed me to add an OS X
interface to a Perl script. But I still have to call the script from
the command line.
Are there ways to create double-clickable or droplet-style

I need some help troubleshooting an 'Undefined symbols' error.
I'm trying to get Mason/mod_perl/Apache to install and work properly.
Currently I am running Mac OS X 10.2.8.
I first installed Perl v5.8.4. (I still have the Perl 5.6 installation

I downloaded CamelBone and installed it.  All okay.
Then, I tried to install Mac::Glue but it seemed to fail because of this:
Running make install
Warning: You do not have permissions to install into

I would like to install modules in /Library/Perl ... but they are
always installed in /System/Library/Perl (using shell install, cpan
install or webmin install)
I would like to make my /System as clean as it was the first day.

Is there a binary install for Perl 5.8.4 anywhere?  I searched my favorite places, and checked the list archive but can't seem to find the obvious answers.  The download page for CPAN Perl Ports points to the 5.8.0 binaries for Serverlogistics and Apple.  I could grab it via Fink ...

I used to install MIME-tools 5.411a via the CPAN shell on MacOS X 10.2.8
(and 10.1.5) without any problems.
Trying to do the same on MacOS X 10.3.4 ends with an error while doing 'make
test'. The error can be seen in Ref.tlog: