I'm having the same issue, however I'm trying to launch the script at startup and I prefer to use launchd (much as I like/use cron on Linux it's being phased out on Mac). So far I have included all the @INC paths and I am running my perl script from a bash script that contains the result of  perl -le 'print q{PERL5LIB=}, join(":",grep /w/, @INC)' (to try and obtain the equivalent effect of pasting it on top of the crontab). How can I make this work using launchd? I can use any instance of launchd /System/Library/LaunchAgent, /Library/LauncAgent, or ~/Library/LaunchAgent. I am currently using the latter and have not tried using the root ones ( and all of the testing is done using launchctl load without being root - though I don't see how this would make a difference ). My Mac is running Snow Leopard.

Additional details follow.

- Error output from launchd: 


Can't load '/opt/local/lib/perl5/5.8.9/darwin-2level/auto/Fcntl/Fcntl.
+bundle' for module Fcntl: dlopen(/opt/local/lib/perl5/5.8.9/darwin-2l
+evel/auto/Fcntl/Fcntl.bundle, 1): Symbol not found: _PL_curpad
  Referenced from: /opt/local/lib/perl5/5.8.9/darwin-2level/auto/Fcntl
+/Fcntl.bundle
  Expected in: dynamic lookup
 at /opt/local/lib/perl5/5.8.9/darwin-2level/Fcntl.pm line 215
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /opt/local/lib/perl5/5.8.9/darwin
+-2level/Fcntl.pm line 216.
Compilation failed in require at /Users/rgr/wallpaper/cal.pl line 14.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /Users/rgr/wallpaper/cal.pl line 
+14.

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I've looked in the perl libraries for the source of the problem, darwin-2level/Fcntl.pm line 215:

214 BEGIN {
215   XSLoader::load 'Fcntl', $VERSION;
216 }

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The Perl documentation concerning this error from XSLoader: " As the message says, some symbols stay undefined although the extension module was correctly loaded and initialised. The list of undefined symbols follows." (

 +bundle' for module Fcntl: dlopen(/opt/local/lib/perl5/5.8.9/darwin-2
+l
+evel/auto/Fcntl/Fcntl.bundle, 1): Symbol not found: _PL_curpad

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).

I've opened darwin-2level/auto/Fcntl/Fcntl.bundle but it isn't human readable (save a few words here and there including _PL_curpad that I've searched).

The Perl script I'm trying to run is a modified version of jtrue's excellent script to superpose a calendar on the desktop image.

In reply to Re: Cron can't find a module in OSX by Anonymous Monk
in thread Cron can't find a module in OSX by true

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