Joe,

The advice about sym links and binary incompatabilities are all good, and I agree with what the other respondents have said. But in the end, my best suggestion to you is to upgrade from 10.2 to 10.3.

I have been running OS X since 10.0 (and I used to mess around with some older pre-release developer builds and even some Rhapsody stuff). And while 10.3 has its share of bumps and uglies, it is totally worth the upgrade. It updates alot of the underlying Unix tools in particular the installations of Perl, Python and Ruby. Perl is upgraded to 5.8.0 (not quite 5.8.2 but its ALOT better than 5.6.0).

If you either dont want to upgrade to 10.3 or still feel after upgrading you want 5.8.2, you can take a look at these instructions from Apple's developer site, they might provide some insight.

http://developer.apple.com/internet/macosx/perl.html

They are instructions for upgrading from 5.6.0 to 5.8.0, but i imagine (although i dont know since i havent done it myself) that they are still relevant.

Another point to keep in mind is that there is apparently a problem with the threaded version of Perl 5.8 and the latest DBI version on OS X. I am not sure if this has been resolved (I dont use threads).

-stvn

In reply to Re: Changing path values during Configure causes make problems during 5.8.2 install. by stvn
in thread Changing path values during Configure causes make problems during 5.8.2 install. by jryan

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