Mac Forum / Programming / Perl / September 2007

I have a bit of a curiosity here with a script I've been working on  
and am hoping that some others may have experienced and found a  
solution to a similar script portability issue.
The script in question is intended to run on OS X Perl and WinXP  

Perl snippet question:
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#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

I have to send my macbook pro off for repair (suffering form the  
usual lack of apple manufacture standards) and am trying to install  
the DBI module on a G5 tower in the office. However, am running into  
deadends. I Have installed the developer tools amd when I run

All,
I attempted to install DBD::MySQL from the CPAN repositories. I  
received a ton of errors seen below:
Can't exec "mysql_config": No such file or directory at Makefile.PL  

Problems installing Email::MIME::Modifier on Mac OS X Darwin 8.10.1, Perl 5.8.6
Find below:
1. OUTPUT OF CPAN
2. MY PERL CONFIG

Since Perl and Javascript seem to be hand in a hand for Web 2.0
applications, is there anyone out there using Mac Perl to create Web
Apps using the EXTJS library (e.g. extjs.com). I am looking for a good
Javascript forum and any advice on tools on the Mac. Also, how to make

If I run this script:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use open IN  => ":byte";
use constant A => 1;

I was on my way to install Net::SSH::Perl when an error with Math::GMP stopped me...
I then installed libgmp successfully, tried again... no luck.
then changed a couple of lines in Math::GMP Makefile.PL as written in this previous mailing :
http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl ...