These are the most widely used UNIX distributions in the open source world today (OSX Panther & Fedora Core 1)

Fedora is one of several distros with a sufficiently large install base that it's difficult to tell which is most widely used. SUSE and Mandrake and Debian for example all seem to be pretty much neck-and-neck with Fedora. (RedHat _sells_ more, but most of the sales are corporate support contracts, a small percentage of the total install base, which is much more difficult to measure.)

As for Mac OS X, yeah, a lot of people have it on their computers, but most of them installing any Perl modules. If you only count people who are familiar with *nix and use the Darwin underpinnings in any meaningful way, its install base is definitely smaller than Linux, probably smaller than any of the major Linux distros, and quite possibly smaller than FreeBSD as well.

Some modules have compiled OK but they seem to be the smaller ones like Mail::Sendmail

Mail::Sendmail is pure Perl, so if there are serious problems with your build environment, that won't matter. For example, you can install it even if you don't actually have a C compiler or if you don't have the header files for the standard C libraries or other essential things without which you can't successfully compile pretty much anything. In other words, your problem might not be a Perl problem at all, but a build environment problem, and Mail::Sendmail won't be affected because it doesn't require a build environment.

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

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