Re: Installing modules on Mac OS X

[Xilman]

I'm also a relative newbie at installing on MacOS and got into terrible troubles until I learned the magic incantation:

sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell

The sudo was the key requirement ...

Paul

(Fixed case of the -e switch. Doh!)

[larus]

Oh boy, this is producing awful lot of pain. I did type

~ > which make
/usr/bin/make
~ > which gcc
/usr/bin/gcc

and I used

sudo rm -rf /Users/larus/.cpan/build/

and I tried

sudo perl -MCPAN -e 'install Bundle::CPAN'

But all I got was errors. After all this hassle I found this

http://www.mail-archive.com/[e-mail]/msg10184.html

and tried installing manually. After all, I don't know if this procedure installs all the dependencies. Any glue? Thanks to all who gave a share of their mighty wisdom. Why this have to be so hard? We are programmers, we should make programs that flow like a river stream, eih?

[olus]

Check if you have cpan configured to use 'your' make.

sudo perl -MCPAN -eshell
 ...

cpan[1]> o conf

and check if you have something like

make               [/usr/bin/make]

[larus]

After a little bit goooogling I found this

http://sial.org/howto/perl/life-with-cpan/

and I wrote

sudo perl -MCPAN -eshell
cpan> o conf make /usr/bin/make
cpan> o conf commit

And after this EVERYTHING SEEMS TO WORK FINE, and cpan is also working!! Great! For example installing Getopt::Long works fine

cpan> install Getop::Long

---snip---
  /usr/bin/make test -- OK
Running make install
Manifying blib/man3/Getopt::Long.3pm
Installing /System/Library/Perl/5.8.8/newgetopt.pl
Installing /System/Library/Perl/5.8.8/Getopt/Long.pm
Installing /usr/share/man/man3/Getopt::Long.3pm
Writing /System/Library/Perl/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level/auto/Get
+opt/Long/.packlist
Appending installation info to /System/Library/Perl/5.8.8/darwin-threa
+d-multi-2level/perllocal.pod
  /usr/bin/make install  -- OK

Thanks!

[larus]

Thanks, it seems that there is no configuration for make

---snip---
    keep_source_where  /Users/larus/.cpan/sources
    lynx               
    make               
    make_arg           
    make_install_arg   
    makepl_arg         
    ncftp              
    ncftpget           
    no_proxy           
    pager              /usr/bin/less
    prerequisites_policy ask
    scan_cache         atstart
    shell              /bin/bash
    tar                /usr/bin/tar
    term_is_latin      1
    unzip              /usr/bin/unzip
    urllist           
    wget               

---snip---

How should I configure it? Thank you for your help.

[jhourcle]

The problem is that something that works fine on one system breaks in another OS. It's pretty much like languages -- what's easy to write in Perl might not be so easy to write in Ruby, and visa-versa. The same with expressing ideas in French vs. English.

With systems, it's one thing to deal with a fresh install, and yet another to deal with a system that'd been used for years, with whatever's been installed, a few major OS updates, etc. In theory with MacOSX, it should just be a matter of installing the dev tools, and issuing the command 'sudo cpan'.

If you're manually installing the modules, it _will_not_ install dependancies, they might 'make' but they'll give errors when you 'make test'. (assuming the module author put in the appropriate tests).