Morbus Iff writes "The newest release of Apple's operating system, Mac OS X v10.2 (Jaguar) comes with perl 5.6.0, surprisingly old for their latest offering. In an Internet Developer article, I walk the Mac OS X user through installing perl 5.8.0, and as well provide a brief introduction to CPAN."
Re:For the impatient
xxxl on 2003-03-07T15:36:52
i get this during make: cc -o libperl.dylib -flat_namespace -L/usr/local/lib -dynamiclib -compatibility_version 5.8.0 -current_version 5.8.0 -install_name/System/Library/Perl/darwin/CORE/libperl.dylib perl.o gv.o toke.o perly.o op.o regcomp.o dump.o util.o mg.o reentr.o hv.o av.o run.o pp_hot.o sv.o pp.o scope.o pp_ctl.o pp_sys.o doop.o doio.o regexec.o utf8.o taint.o deb.o universal.o xsutils.o globals.o perlio.o perlapi.o numeric.o locale.o pp_pack.o pp_sort.o ld: Undefined symbols: restFP saveFP ___fixdfdi ___floatdidf ___divdi3 /usr/bin/libtool: internal link edit command failed make: *** [libperl.dylib] Error 1
I have fink and gnu/darwin installed.
I'm idly wondering what that one does, as compared to compiling your own. Certainly, you won't have the customization options, but on the other hand, would it increase compatibility with other Apple or third-party software to have the "Apple" binary?
Any lessons from experience?
It Ain't "Apple's"
mako132 on 2002-08-30T13:30:15
Apple provides a link to a third-party 5.8.0 install. At the bottom of the page it says,Apple is providing links to these applications as a courtesy, and makes no representations regarding the applications or any information related thereto. Any questions, complaints or claims regarding the applications must be directed to the appropriate software vendor.
Check http://www.serverlogistics.com/downloads-osx.php for a wee-tiny bit of info on how this Perl was built.Re:How's this compare to "Apple's" 5.8.0?
jonasbn on 2002-09-01T16:35:44
This is taken from the README file:
- This Perl distribution will install into/opt/perl. This means
the Perl that comes bundled with Mac OS X will not be
affected in any way by installing this package.
- This package includes only the standard Perl library.
No extra modules were built and included.
So that is actually all it does...
Re:What are we trying to accomplish?
ChrisDolan on 2002-08-30T18:25:31
For me, the answer is C.
I can't speak for everyone else, but my goal was to get all of the 5.8.0 features and bug fixes without breaking the mod_perl that comes with OSX, which is tied to their 5.6.0 release.
The config options I added are to prevent 5.8.0 from overwriting 5.6.0 (which is the default). These wouldn't be needed if Apple had used a rational directory structure for their perl build.
