At 7:36 PM -0500 1/12/2003, Steve Linberg wrote: > >Thanks for your article, it was helpful to me when I was installing 5.8.0. >I've given up on 5.8.0 now, though, because of the trouble with mod_perl. > >Have you tried building Apache 1.3.27 with mod_perl 1.27 on your Perl >5.8.0 setup? I'd be really curious to see if it works. My conclusion, >after a weekend of suffering, is that it doesn't. If you or anybody could >show that it's possible and list build steps, I'd be very grateful indeed. > >Meanwhile I'm sticking to 5.6.0, flawed as it is, and installing modules >by hand rather than via CPAN.pm in an effort to stay away from 5.8.0. :(
David Wheeler has put together a helpful set of instructions at http://david.wheeler.net/osx.html These deal with installing 5.6.1 on 10.1, but should be helpful when taken together with Kevin's tutorial on Apple's site. At least until David updates the instructions to include 5.8 (and other things like the newer libapreq libraries). They involve compiling a static mod_perl into the apache binary and placing it (and Perl, if memory serves) outside of Apple's canonical locations. As far as issues with CPAN are concerned, they should largely go away once you upgrade the version of CPAN that Apple ships (using 'install CPAN' rather than the suggested 'install Bundle::CPAN' which invariable tries to download an entire Perl installation). FWIW, CPANPLUS shows a great deal of promise. -Charles Euonymic Solutions
