Mac Forum / Programming / Perl / January 2006

I am contemplating using Darwinports and I see that it has Perl 5.8.7 in
the ports. Has anyone used this for their version of Perl on OSX? Did
you experience any problems?
Robert

I have a typical mail cgi script written in perl and can't figure out  
why I don`t get an error when the message is not sent.
My script does the typical:
open (MAIL, "|/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i -F'$from_name' -

I'm trying to install XMLTV, see
  http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=39046
but it fails every time saying
  Warning: the following files are missing in your kit:

I'm using File::Path's mkpath() function in a script run by Apache on
Mac OS X 10.3 and Perl 5.8.1. It works fine when only creating a single
directory, but as soon as it tries to create more than one directory
level, it fails. Below is the relevant code and error. Can anyone see

Every attempt I've made over the past 3 years to install PDL has
failed, including the last attempt I have just made, but this time I
seem to be quite close.   I wonder if anyone can advise.
(for Joel Rees' instruction ... is an ellipsis )

I can execute a Perl script in the terminal (MacOSX) but cannot get that
same Perl script to execute on a browser (ie Safari).  I can upload that
same script to my virtual Unix server and it executes just fine there.
I suspect the problem is the Apache config on my Mac but have ...

I'm pretty much a newbie when it comes to Mac OS X so go easy on me.  I have
a Perl applicaton that communicates with the Asterisk VoIP phone system
through AGI (Asterisk Gateway Interface) very similar to CGI.  Asterisk
starts my perl application and the two communicate over ...

I was trying to do something involving renaming files the other day and
I wrote:
  system("rename $originalname $newname");
and got an error. I figured out in the end I was getting confused --

I know I can get this with `whoami`, but I was wondering if there was
a "Perl" way to find the user who executed the script.  I basically
want to make it so my script is executable by normal users, but
prints an error if it is not only the root user.

How can I permanently add to @INC?  I have 2 versions of perl  
installed and only use one of them.  The reason for 2 versions is a  
port system that refuses to rely on the already installed perl.  So I  
have:

Hi list.
I want to use some Foundation objects like NSDictionary and others in  
a Perl script (because of writing a plist of that).
I succeeded with using PerlObjCBridge (use Foundation).