Re: Installing 5.8.0

2003-06-19 Thread Robin
On Friday, June 20, 2003, at 07:23 am, Ken Williams wrote: On Wednesday, June 18, 2003, at 03:54 PM, Robin wrote: On Wednesday, June 18, 2003, at 11:34 pm, David R. Morrison wrote: Has the problem with CPAN overwriting /usr/bin/head with /usr/bin/HEAD been solved? yes I believe so, thought th

Re: Installing 5.8.0

2003-06-19 Thread Ken Williams
On Wednesday, June 18, 2003, at 03:54 PM, Robin wrote: On Wednesday, June 18, 2003, at 11:34 pm, David R. Morrison wrote: Has the problem with CPAN overwriting /usr/bin/head with /usr/bin/HEAD been solved? yes I believe so, thought this is one of the well documented problems I was referring to,

Installing Perl 5.8: hostname test fails

2003-06-19 Thread Alexander von Below
While doing a fresh install of Perl 5.8 (as outlined here: http://developer.apple.com/internet/macosx/perl.html), I get a test-error with hostname.t: Use of uninitialized value in string eq at ../lib/Net/t/hostname.t line 39. Obviously "hostname" did not return anything. I am running a pretty

WWDC

2003-06-19 Thread Lorin Rivers
I will be at WWDC and I'd love to put faces with names. I will be lurking in the MacTech booth @ the exhibitor fair and trying to sneak into sessions with my lame exhibitor badge (from speaker to nobody in one year. Sigh.). Are there BOF sessions this year? -- Lorin Rivers Marketing Professiona

Re: Problems installing LWP via CPAN

2003-06-19 Thread Alexander von Below
I upgraded to 5.8, and I am currently reinstalling it the hard way (i.e. with removing the libs before). This seems to be the only hope and indicated in http://search.cpan.org/author/JHI/perl-5.8.0/pod/ perldelta.pod#Mac_OS_X_dyld_undefined_symbols Thanks for making me read that link a seco

Problems installing LWP via CPAN

2003-06-19 Thread Alexander von Below
Hello, I am trying to install LWP via CPAN for Perl 5.8, but get the apparently usuall errors indicating there is an incompatibility problem between old 5.6 and the new 5.8 modules: t/api_versiondyld: /usr/bin/perl Undefined symbols: _PERL_UNUSED_VAR _Perl_safefree _Perl_safemalloc _P