In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joel
Rees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2004.5.6, at 08:08 PM, Joel Rees wrote:
> > What's the difference between perl -mCPAN (or whatever that was) and
> > /usr/local/bin/cpan?
>
> perl -MCPAN -e shell
>
> is interactive.
so is my cpan script, when calle
Hi! I am new to the list. Here is what I have
learned so far about perl and the Mac.
1.) My experience with Mac OS X is that you need to
heavily modify your PATH. If you add /usr/bin to the
path you can just type perl -MCPAN -eshell. I also
verified that the size of perl matched the perl
versi
On Thu, 6 May 2004, Joel Rees wrote:
> Thanks. Any thoughts about the file locks left over when I run without
> sudo and quit?
Your CPAN home directory should be something like ~/.cpan/ -- look in
there for a lock file, possibly owned by root. Delete it while the CPAN
shell isn't running (use sud
On 2004.5.6, at 09:58 PM, Chris Devers wrote:
...
But anyway, back to your original question. Your /usr/bin/cpan should
just be a little Perl script that amounts to little more than this:
$ /usr/bin/perl -MCPAN -e shell
hmm. I could have sworn I'd ended up with non-interactive behavior when
I
On Thu, 6 May 2004, Joel Rees wrote:
> On 2004.5.6, at 08:08 PM, Joel Rees wrote:
>
> What I'm thinking about is learning enough sh to split the path and
> insert /usr/local/bin in the middle, because I really don't want to put
>
> set path=(/bin /sbin /usr/local/bin /usr/bin /usr/sbin)
>
> i
On May 6, 2004, at 7:08 AM, Joel Rees wrote:
When you have perl 5.6 as the system perl (/usr/bin) and perl 5.8 as a
parallel install in /usr/local/bin, you want to set your user's path
to put /usr/local/bin in front of /usr/bin before you run cpan, so
cpan doesn't get confused, right?
The 'cpan
On 2004.5.6, at 08:08 PM, Joel Rees wrote:
Okay, I seem to have forgotten how to use CPAN. Where are the detailed
instructions?
(perldoc cpan only gets me a page.)
And while I'm making noise,
When you have perl 5.6 as the system perl (/usr/bin) and perl 5.8 as a
parallel install in /usr/local/bi
Okay, I seem to have forgotten how to use CPAN. Where are the detailed
instructions?
(perldoc cpan only gets me a page.)
And while I'm making noise,
When you have perl 5.6 as the system perl (/usr/bin) and perl 5.8 as a
parallel install in /usr/local/bin, you want to set your user's path to
put
