On Tuesday, November 5, 2002, at 10:23 AM, todd shifflett wrote:
Thank you. I decided to recompile perl, which seemed to work well.Todd,
The big problem I am having is getting the GD.pm module to work because it
needs shared libraries which I am having trouble installing.
Have you had any luck installing libgd, zlib or the GD perl module?
I guess if you're using something other than OSX your situation would be different.
I'm on Mac OS X here as well. It used to be that compiling anything but the most simple UNIX programs was a headache. With 10.2, it's gotten better.
In addition, there's fink (http://fink.sf.net). It's a command line utility installs UNIX software that has been ported to OS X. In fact, just to see if it works, I'm installing GD right now, through fink. The command, if you're interested, is:
% fink install gd-pm
which will then ask you to confirm that gd-pm, gd2 and gd2-shlibs will be installed. Do this.
Interestingly enough, I think most of the fink program itself is written in perl.
Installing gd-pm is done. It took < 5 minutes on a G3/500mHz iBook.
So it can be done :)
p.s.I am running the standard unix version of perl, not macperl.
Amazing that there are still many people who simply don't get that.
todd shifflett said:I just re-installed perl 5.8.0 on my mac. When I did the new version was placed into /opt/bin where I do not want it so I moved all the files and man pages to where they should be. Now How do I change the @INC array?You don't. Your options are: - recompile perl - mess with PERL5LIB - put in symlinks - add use lib all over the place - binary edit your perl executable (careful!) - maybe something macperl specific - I don't know The first is probably the best choice if it's possible.I would also like to know how to change the other information listed with 'perl -V'Change the options to Configure when you recompile. -- Paul Johnson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pjcj.net-- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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