On Feb 22, 2007, at 6:21 PM, Vic Norton wrote:
Apple suggested I install something the other day. (Java or
something like that.) I did it. Now I discover that many of my Perl
scripts don't work.
The problem is with @INC. It appears to have been upgraded to Perl
5.8.8. For example, when I try
use Date::Parse qw(str2time);
I get the message
/Volumes/VTN Docs/ My Perl/Tests/test5.pl:6: Can't locate Date/
Parse.pm in @INC
followed by a list of what @INC contains:
/Volumes/VTN Docs/ My Perl/Tests
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/darwin-2level
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/darwin-2level
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8
/usr/local/lib/
That's not Apple's Perl, or anything that resulted from the recent
Apple update. I've looked through the recent Apple update receipts,
and didn't find anything Perl-related. You can use lsbom to check the
contents of anything installed from .pkg or .mpkg packages, which
includes Apple updates. The receipts are in /Library/Receipts, so to
find the.boms for packages installed in the last 7 days:
find /Library/Receipts -newerct '7 days ago' -name '*.bom'
Then, to browse the list of files installed by a package using the
"less" command:
lsbom /Library/Receipts/JavaForMacOSX10.4Release5.pkg/Contents/
Archive.bom | less
The package "Date/Parse.pm" is right where it has always been,
along with a whole pile of other stuff, in
/Library/Perl/5.8.6
So this is my question. How do I add "/Library/Perl/5.8.6" to @INC,
without having to add
use lib "/Library/Perl/5.8.6";
to every script ?
Possibly, someone replaced all your scripts #!/usr/bin/perl with #!/
usr/local/bin/perl. Maybe you did that to test them against the newer
Perl and forgot to change it back, or maybe someone in your house has
a strange sense of humor. :-)
If your scripts still say #!/usr/bin/perl, then something has removed
the original /usr/bin/perl and replaced it with a link to /usr/local/
bin/perl. You can check that with "/usr/bin/perl -v".
Fortunately, the original is also a link, to /usr/bin/perl5.8.6, so
if it was disturbed, it's easy to make things right:
sudo rm /usr/bin/perl
sudo ln /usr/bin/perl5.8.6 /usr/bin/perl
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