I'm sorry, I don't know how I can help you. I just installed cpanm 1.7044 as a Devuan package (Debian derived Linux) and it installs pl fine with -l /some/dir. (It does create various useless x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi subdirs, but that may be their problem and only cosmetic.) I can however confirm that reinstalling does overwrite the script – annoying but again not the end of the world.

Maybe you can find a similarly minimal package as pl is, for you and me to compare? Cpanm is quite the opposite, having so many dependencies.

Or you could open an issue against cpanm, saying that it works on Linux, but not Mac. If you add the output you get from cpanm -v App::pl, they'll probably know right away what's wrong. Or they might have access to a Mac, to find out…

In reply to Re^5: pl – Perl One-Liner Magic Wand: looking for feedback by Daniel Pfeiffer
in thread pl – Perl One-Liner Magic Wand: looking for feedback by Daniel Pfeiffer

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