Thanks to everyone for their help with installing, not in fact
modules, but a C library which a module needed in order to run.
Thanks particularly to Les Harris who provided the following incantation:
tar xvfz <the downloaded file name>.tar.gz
cd <the downloaded file name, now a folder>
./configure
make
sudo make install
which worked fine. The "make" portions took quite a while and seemed
to be doing nothing but I was patient and it worked.
I now have 2 XML modules running happily on OS X.
Here's my next question though. I've downloaded another type of
library file which is needed for another project, an HTML syntax
checker.
The incantation above doesn't work.
The contents of the folder don't seem to contain the same kind of
configure file. They are:
COPYING
FILES
Makefile
Makefile.comm
Makefile.lib
Makefile.lib.CC
Makefile.lib.sun
Makefile.prog
Makefile.wat
README
SP.dsw
VERSION
all
doc
generic
include
japan.sgmldecl
lib
msggen.pl
nsgmls
sgmlnorm
spam
spent
sunfix.sh
sx
unicode
any suggestions?
jh
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