>Apple updated their own copy in an update. Would you use your copy and >perhaps some of its libraries? This is the main reason I've decided to >keep my entire Perl installation in /usr/local, including all of its >modules. Apple's Perl can stay right where it is, Apple can do what it >wants to it via its OS upgrades, and I don't worry about it.
True. If Apple updated their Perl in the same way as in the past, /usr/bin/perl (which, per the article, is a copy of the same Perl installed in /usr/local/bin/perl) would be wiped out. That new binary would also reenable /System/Library/Perl support. If the Apple install is wipe/replace, then it would also trash your installed modules under /Library/Perl. >One other thing I noticed is that you use XML::Parser as an example >CPAN module to install. If you are indeed installing Perl on a clean >Jaguar install, this will likely fail, as you haven't installed Expat >yet. Also, if and when you *do* install Expat, and you install it in >/usr/local Perl won't be able to find it, because the /usr/local/lib >and /usr/local/include directories didn't exist when you installed >Perl. I found this out the hard way myself. Argh. I coulda swore I used HTML::Parser as an example instead of XML::Parser for the exact same reason you mention here. I *know* there's extra magick needed for an XML::Parser install, and I'm surprised I used such a bum example as this. I'll see if I can get it fixed. >And finally, in the final section, you discuss CGI. I think it would be >important to remind users that, if they're running Apple's Apache, then >their CGI scripts will be run under Perl 5.6.0, not 5.8.0. Although you >mention earlier that Apache will need to be recompiled, the CGI section >should be more explicit about this, IMO. That'd only be the case if the user was running the scripts under mod_perl - normal CGI scripts won't be affected. -- Morbus Iff ( i'm the droid you're looking for ) Culture: http://www.disobey.com/ and http://www.gamegrene.com/ Please Me: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/wishlist/25USVJDH68554 icq: 2927491 / aim: akaMorbus / yahoo: morbus_iff / jabber.org: morbus
