Mac Forum / Programming / Perl / July 2005

I installed 5.8.7 on a Mac Mini running 10.4.2 under /usr/local,  
executables in /usr/local/bin, used .bash_profile to add /usr/local/
bin to the front of my path (bleaugh).
(Hesitated about installing gpg, but trying to build it gave me a  

Dear Perlers,
    A little while ago I asked about solutions to the graceless  
failure I was experiencing with psync (would look like it copied  
data, but would happily create zero-byte files once out of room,  

I usually install modules via cpan, but I've been sent a module to test.
 I usually install modules via CPAN.  I've been googling installing
modules locally to see how it works.  From what I've found, it seems
simple enough to do something like this:

I was thinking it was about time to do a backup and I was trying to  
run psync on Tiger and I got this:
Can't locate MacOSX/File.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /System/Library/
Perl/5.8.6/darwin-thread-multi-2level /System/Library/Perl/5.8.6 /

I finally heard back from the module owner of WWW::Search, and here's
what he had to say:
  Please accept my apologies, I don't get much time to work on my Perl
Modules these days...

Just accepted all the defaults.
    sudo make
gave one error:
    [...]

I've tried passing perl pointers to Cocoa methods using the
PerlObjCBridge.  I can't get it to work, probably because Perl
pointers "don't let you peek and poke at raw memory locations" (Adv
Perl Programming).  Does anyone know of a way to get this to work?

With a hint from Jarkko I got 5.4.5 to build on OS X.  Here's how.
Step one:  Copy hints/darwin.sh from 5.5.4.  I chose 5.5.4 because its the
closest to 5.4.5 and yet still modern.
Step two:  Fix the version discovery handling in the hints file.  The 5.5.4