Mac OS X Paths and GraphViz

Ovid on 2005-01-07T16:51:50

Mostly here so to make googling for "Install Perl's GraphViz on OS X" easier.

In installing GraphViz on my new iBook, I remembered that I could not use the latest Graph.pm and thus had to fall back to 0.20105. Then I had to make the GraphViz dot executable avaialable for GraphViz.pm. One Website recommended adding /Applications/Graphviz.app/Contents/MacOS to your path. This seems like path pollution, so I recommended creating a soft link to dot from some existing spot in one's path.

ln -s /Applications/Graphviz.app/Contents/MacOS/dot dot

Later when I googled for that when I wanted to reinstall GraphViz, I discovered they deleted my comment. Either someone doesn't like being corrected or I gave bad advice.


never attributes to malice...

kellan on 2005-01-08T03:31:06

...what can be explained by incompetence.

Probably got blasted in the comment spam fight during the period I was trying to get clever w/ my regexes.

Re:never attributes to malice...

Ovid on 2005-01-08T16:09:19

My apologies. I hadn't even considered that, but it makes sense.

Graph.pm

acme on 2005-01-08T12:05:40

I remembered that I could not use the latest Graph.pm
Oops, I noticed that. This is longer an issue, now that 2.02 no longer depends on Graph.pm.