and it works.
Installing /Library/Perl/darwin/DBD/getsqlite.pl
Installing /Library/Perl/darwin/DBD/SQLite.pm
Installing /usr/share/man/man3/DBD::SQLite.3
Writing /Library/Perl/darwin/auto/DBD/SQLite/.packlist
Appending installation info to /System/Library/Perl/darwin/perllocal.pod
/usr/bin/make install -- OK
Thanks Paul, and Ken.
On Tuesday, January 28, 2003, at 05:58 PM, Paul McCann wrote:
Hi again,
hmmmm... if you (I too) can't see it on search.cpan.org, how do you
know 0.24 exists? I searched on the minimalist seargent.org, and on
Google too... nothing about 0.24. Is there a secret place? ;-)
Hmm, not very sEcReT; Matt Sergeant has a use.perl.org journal
http://use.perl.org/~Matts/journal/
He happened to mention the new release some time in the last couple of
days, and having had the "bus error" joy with SQLite the info stuck in
my brain.
on a related note -- I am fairly confused about this CPAN installing
thing? most perl packages (such as SQLite.pm, provided it didn't have
to build libsqlite.a) are just text files, no? Hence, why do they need
to be "installed" unless "install"-ing means simply copying them to
the
correct place.
For pure perl modules that's pretty much what's up. You can do it
yourself if you *really* want to (that used to be the way with things
on
Mac OS before Chris Nandor wrote some nice tools to do the easy things
automatically). If you really want to know what's being done then have
a
gander at the Makefile that's produced via a "perl Makefile.PL" call.
And, is the "install" procedure merely "perl
Makefile.PL, make, make install"... is that all that CPAN really does
(provided it doesn't have to follow any dependencies). So, if I have
to
install something outside of CPAN, do I do "perl Makefile.PL, make,
make install"?
All going well that's what CPAN is doing for you: if you watch the
procedure you'll notice exactly that sequence being executed, but with
the worthwhile twist that it'll postpone installing one module until
it's tried to install the prerequisites (and so on). CPAN uses all the
standard locations, so installing by hand is perfectly in harmony with
the CPAN installation process. It's just significantly more painful if
you find dependencies (and then dependencies of dependencies...).
In short: yep, "perl Makefile.PL ; make ; make test ; make install".
Don't forget the "make test" piece of the puzzle. Habit has me using
"sudo make install" at the last step, but just glancing through the
directories suggests that the sudo call shouldn't be necessary on Mac
OS X.
Cheers,
Paul
