Hi,

I was having similar problems on OS 10.3 Panther. The DBI, DBD::MySQL modules would not compile. This is caused by a bug in the Developer Tools compiler. There is a note somewhere on a simple amendment to the config file for this which is supposed to solve the problem but I couldn't get that to work either. Also you can put this line after you have done the Makefile step and that is supposed to work. perl -pi -e's/MACOSX/env MACOSX/' Makefile

In the end I decided that my problem was the fact that Apple decided on a multithreaded install of Perl so I then decided to overcome this and upgrade to 5.8.3 (Unthreaded) at the same time and followed the instructions here. http://developer.apple.com/internet/opensource/perl.html

For me the comand line download of the distribution from CPAN didn't work so I downloaded it with my browser and then moved it to somewhere that I could easily find from the comand line. I then moved it to the directory I had made for the process, unpacked it and installed it. Now modules install fine and DBD::MySQL DBI etc work as expected.

I hope that this helps and saves you from giving up on Perl.

Best wishes

Sid

In reply to Re: Module compilation hell by Hissingsid
in thread Module compilation hell by Anonymous Monk

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