On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 9:11 AM, Matthew Kenworthy <[email protected]> wrote: >> SciKarl uses the Apple perl, which is in /usr/bin/perl. You won't notice a >> >> > difference unless you don't use >> > #!/usr/bin/perl >> > >> >> >> Matt, I never use Apple's perl. All my personal use is via my own perl >> (and hundreds of other modules that I) installed at >> /usr/local/bin/perl. >> >> Is there a way to use SciKarl with my /usr/local/bin/perl? I don't >> mind SciKarl installing/overwriting stuff in /usr/local/, but I don't >> want to have *any* thing to do with /usr/bin. Part of the reason is >> control (I put things in /usr/local/, so I am responsible for it), and >> part, on my production servers I have access only to /usr/local/. >> > > Errr... in short, no. > > It would be very difficult to build against an 'unknown' personal user's > perl, and then I could be overwriting your specific perl modules. > /usr/bin/perl is guaranteed to be on all Macs, so I stick with that. > > I had attached the build notes on the last email - but I can send them again > in a separate email. >
Thanks Matt, I got your build notes now. Given the above information, SciKarl is sadly out of the question for me (just as I was getting warmed up to it!). See, because I personally installed perl under /usr/local, I actually don't mind stuff getting clobbered there, because I can reinstall things there (I test everything on my own laptop first before it goes on any other machines). I can imagine that it would be difficult to build against an unknown perl, and I guess, that constitutes the difficulty of something like this. Another option would be to embed a complete perl inside SciKarl, but that has its own headaches! Ahhhhhh (imagine a long Wilhelm scream here). So, thanks again for your build notes. I hope to make some headway using those. -- Puneet Kishor http://www.punkish.org Carbon Model http://carbonmodel.org Charter Member, Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org Science Commons Fellow, http://sciencecommons.org/about/whoweare/kishor Nelson Institute, UW-Madison http://www.nelson.wisc.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Assertions are politics; backing up assertions with evidence is science ======================================================================= _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
