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in thread How do you install Perl modules on a Mac?

I've started calibrating the CPAN thing, but where is my make program?
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Re^3: How do you install Perl modules on a Mac?
by radiantmatrix (Parson) on Jul 07, 2005 at 22:49 UTC

    You have to install the Developer Tools that came on the CD with OS X (they're downloadable from Apple, too, I think). Then the CPAN config should find it automatically. Otherwise, from your terminal type 'which make' -- if that doesn't work, then make isn't in your path, and you should try 'sudo find / -name "make" -type f' and look through any results.

    Don't put the single quotes around the commands, I put them in only for clarity.

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      I've installed the developer tools, but it seems to have saved the fact that I didn't give it a path to my make program. How would I go about changing/recalibrating it so that I could fix that?
        cpan> o conf make '/path/to/make'
Re^3: How do you install Perl modules on a Mac?
by neniro (Priest) on Jul 07, 2005 at 22:40 UTC
    You need to install the X-Code Tools. They should be on your Tiger- or Panther-CD.