On 2005.12.30, at 10:03 AM, James Reynolds wrote:
Grumble. That is exactly what I wanted to know! Thanks!
Does CPAN install C libraries to /usr/local/lib or somewhere else?
Maybe it would help to tell you it ain't that simple?
To mention openssl again, it can be installed in a variety of places,
and it depends in part on where other things you may have installed
might have wanted to put the packages they depend on. That's another
reason for using a sandbox. It reduces the number of places you have to
look for things to copy, and, more importantly, reduces the necessity
of trying to determine what not to copy.
For what it's worth, I don't use the perl interpreter installed by
Apple to do my server stuff with. I probably could if I wanted to learn
an awful lot about how it's set up, but I find it easier to leave the
system alone and install a separate perl for the server, use the #!
line to point to the one to use, and set the environment variables
appropriately in the users I do my dev work under so the shell I'm
using finds the right perldoc for my login user.
(Using the separate perl also helps me avoid building a sandbox for my
personal server, where I don't have resources for doing things the
ideal way.)
