On 20/11/2013, at 1:48 AM, Nick Wright <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi > > Thanks for the quick reply. I've given your steps a try: > > (1) install the latest SciPDL (NOT SciKarl as this dates back to Lion or > something) which works with perl 5.12. Note you seem to be several versions > back so I am guessing you upgraded straight from Lion or something? > > Actually its a new Mac so its a 'fresh' install of OS X Mavericks - the older > versions may be an indication that I found the wrong programs to install on > the internet. OK > > I found PDL-2.007 following a link for SciPDL and then used 'cpan install > PDL' as suggest in the INSTALL file. This appears to have worked fine. Err just install SciPDL. Nothing else, no cpan Unfortunately it seems to have vanished from that directory... will chase up Matt Kenworthy who was looking after this > > (2) sudo ln -s /usr/bin/perl5.12 /usr/local/bin/perl > > (3) make sure /usr/local/bin is at the front of your PATH. > > By 'front' I presume you mean at the beginning of the list from 'echo $PATH'? > At the moment Scisoft was pushing /usr/local/bin off the front, so I have now > restored it to the front. I note that now /usr/local/bin appears twice in my > PATH, once at the beginning and once halfway through - does that matter? Yes. I would not dare run PDL with scisoft enabled BTW. > > Then 'perl script' ought to work. For 'perldl' you will have to edit the #! > line. (Though you can do 'perl /usr/local/bin/perldl' too). > > Still getting the same error unfortunately. How should I edit the #! line (at > the moment it reads ( #!/usr/bin/perl -w ) > > Cheers, > > Nick > > _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
