There's more than one way to do things | |
PerlMonks |
Customary Perl setup on Apple Mac OS X?by Anonymous Monk |
on Aug 05, 2008 at 04:06 UTC ( [id://702211]=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question: What's the recommended Perl setup on Apple Mac OS X? (I'm currently using OS X 10.5.) I'd like to be able to use cpanp (or, failing that, cpan) to install modules. If I build and install my own Perl from source, is it fairly straightforward? (That is, similar to how it builds and installs on GNU/Linux?) Any gotchas I should know about? I'll probably just put it into its own /opt/perl. Incidentally, I've got Fink installed, and I notice that my @INC looks like this:
but there's no /sw/bin/perl. So, it seems that the system Perl actually looks in the Fink /sw directory for modules to load -- thus, I can install Perl modules via the Fink apt-get and the system Perl will find them ...
Back to
Seekers of Perl Wisdom
|
|