Re: Re: Frustrations with CPAN module installation

Corion, well I fixed the permissions and got much further. However, whether I try to let CPAN do the work or do it myself with gzip and tar and make, I get this error:

(You get this message, because MakeMaker could not find "/System/Libra
+ry/Perl/5.8.1/darwin-thread-multi-2level/CORE/perl.h")
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Ideas?

Gosh, where does one learn this stuff?

—Brad
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Re: Re: Re: Frustrations with CPAN module installation by iburrell (Chaplain) on Nov 10, 2003 at 22:34 UTC
I am not a Mac OS user but I vaguely remember some talk that the Perl header files are not shipped with the default install. The Developer Tools need to be installed.	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Frustrations with CPAN module installation by Anonymous Monk on Nov 11, 2003 at 07:53 UTC
Ideas? Gosh, where does one learn this stuff? What is there to learn (the message say it all)? "/System/Library/Perl/5.8.1/darwin-thread-multi-2level/CORE/perl.h" does not exist, which means your perl install is broken. All these 3rd party binary installations are really annoying, mostly because people don't know what to do when things break. Install perl by compiling it from sources yourself. The various INSTALL files cover everything you need to know.	[reply]