On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 10:25:28PM +0900, Robin wrote: > > On Tuesday, June 17, 2003, at 07:13 pm, Michael Maibaum wrote: > > >On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 04:24:23PM +0900, Robin wrote: > >> > >>On Tuesday, June 17, 2003, at 12:24 pm, Sherm Pendley wrote: > >> > >>>On Monday, June 16, 2003, at 10:54 PM, Lorin Rivers wrote: > >>> > >>>>What is the best, simplest, and easiest approach to having a rock > >>>>solid, reasonably "standard" perl setup? > >>>If you really and truly need 5.8.0 - and there are some good reasons > >>>you might, such as improved Unicode support - your best bet would be > >>>to get it from darwinports. > >> > >>Dunno I used CPAN.pm and provided you follow the instructons at > >>http://developer.apple.com/internet/macosx/perl.html > >>which with the exception of setting the LC_ALL environment variable, > >>is > >>pretty concise, it went pretty smoothly. > > > >I would strongly recommend against this approach, or if you use it, > >expect problems if/when you upgrade to Mac OS X 10.3. > > Are you objecting to CPAN or darwinports?
Neither, the directions at http://developer.apple.com/internet/macosx/perl.html which overwrite the Apple supplied perl. > If its the CPAN method, you are being a tad dramatic. Provided you have > installed the dev tools of course (no compiler otherwise), if you > follow the instructions at appledev perl5.8 the distro will be > installed by CPAN in/Users/YOU/usr/local/ and like anyother app you > have installed in your user file, it won't be touched by system > upgrades, it belongs to you. Install perl via CPAN as shown also won't > overwrite the perl used by the OSX system itself (perl5.6, kept in > /Sysytem/LIbrary/Perl). Overwriting this would cause problems for the > parts of the system even before a system upgrade. Agreed, I was objecting to the guidlines on the Apple website, not installing a local perl as a user. > > The effect of darwinports I don't know. DarwinPorts puts perl in /opt/local so it should be pretty safe. One or two people emailled asking about a static mod_perl apache build against perl 5.8, so I've uploaded one at <http://darwinports.gene-hacker.net/pkgs/apache-mod_perl-static-1.3.27.dmg> On the dmg are 2 package installers perl5.8 (destination /opt/local/) apache-1.3.27 with a statically linked mod_perl, (destination /opt/local/apache-1.3.27) Feedback welcome on these packages. Michael -- Dr Michael A. Maibaum internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://mike.maibaum.org/ voice: [h] 07958 604025 | [w] (020) 7631 6725
pgp00000.pgp
Description: PGP signature
