On Sun, 7 Mar 2004, Baiss Eric Magnusson wrote:
> From the ReadMe I see:
>
> perl Makefile.PL
> make
> make test
> make install
This quartet is pretty standard for most CPAN modules.
The beauty of the CPAN.pm library & command line interface is that it
wraps this up for you, along with things like grabbing dependencies, so
you don't have to manually find, download, and then `perl Makefile.PL &&
make && make test && sudo make install` everything individually.
But if you're not using the CPAN library, then dependency resolution has
to be done manually. And that in turn means that an error like this --
> Software error:
> Can't locate MIME/QuotedPrint.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
> /System/Library/Perl/darwin /System/Library/Perl /Library/Perl/darwin
> /Library/Perl /Library/Perl /Network/Library/Perl/darwin
> /Network/Library/Perl /Network/Library/Perl .) at (eval 3) line 2.
-- makes perfect sense, because you've now installed one CPAN module, but
for it to work right you have to install others as well.
If you manually download & install MIME::QuotedPrint, then you'd get past
this error but might possibly have another to deal with.
But why bother with all that?
> So you don't know how to do a <Package> install via Terminal?
What package do you have in mind? Try something like this:
% sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell
Password:
Terminal does not support AddHistory.
cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.76)
ReadLine support available (try 'install Bundle::CPAN')
cpan> install MIME::QuotedPrintb
And it should be grabbed & built for you.
Make sense?
If your Jaguar machine can't do this, it's because someone deleted it. As
Sherm noted, this functionality was standard with every version of Perl
for years before OSX came out in the first place, and it had been standard
for five years before 10.2/Jaguar came out.
If it's not on your Mac, your Mac is broken.
--
Chris Devers
