On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 10:40 PM, P Kishor <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Matthew Kenworthy >> Whoa. I've *never* read any source install where the first step is >> 'install gcc'! >> >> Assuming gcc and make are available is considered pretty safe with linux. > > Not on a Mac though. You need to install Xcode in order to get gcc on > a Mac. So, you can install binary applications (for example, one-click > SciPDL or whatever it might be called in the future) on a Mac without > Xcode, but in order to install anything, no matter how simple, via > cpan, you do need to install Xcode first.
Very true. And let's not forget about Windows. I don't know what you need to do on Windows to setup a build environment, but I'll bet that it is more involved than "yum install gcc make glibc-devel". -- Intolerant people should be shot. _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
