On Tue, 4 Apr 2017 10:43:27 -0700 SSC_perl <p...@surfshopcart.com> wrote:
> This is a heads up for anyone wanting to use WWW::Mechanize on OS X. > > I’ve been fighting with WWW::Mechanize all morning, trying to get it > to work with no success. There were no error messages telling me what was > wrong. I checked my firewall to see if anything was being blocked, but it > wasn’t. I finally ran across a post where someone was asked if they were > able to access the target web site using wget, so I decided to try that > myself. Terminal told me that wget wasn’t found. So… off to homebrew to > install wget, and lo and behold, Mech now works! I went back to see if Mech > had wget as a dependency, but nothing was mentioned on CPAN. > > So just in case someone else was having the same trouble, I thought > I’d post this. Not sure why wget wasn’t installed with Xcode Developer Tools. > > Frank Hi Frank! What you say sounds strange. WWW-Mech should not require wget. Perhaps they both use a common dependency. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ http://shlomifishswiki.branchable.com/Encourage_criticism_and_try_to_get_offended/ Chuck Norris killed the fat lady before she could sing. — http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/facts/Chuck-Norris/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
