Re^2: Installing modules on Mac OS X

Oh boy, this is producing awful lot of pain. I did type

~ > which make
/usr/bin/make
~ > which gcc
/usr/bin/gcc
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and I used

sudo rm -rf /Users/larus/.cpan/build/
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and I tried

sudo perl -MCPAN -e 'install Bundle::CPAN'
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But all I got was errors. After all this hassle I found this

http://www.mail-archive.com/macosx@perl.org/msg10184.html
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and tried installing manually. After all, I don't know if this procedure installs all the dependencies. Any glue? Thanks to all who gave a share of their mighty wisdom. Why this have to be so hard? We are programmers, we should make programs that flow like a river stream, eih?

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Re^3: Installing modules on Mac OS X by olus (Curate) on Feb 26, 2009 at 17:45 UTC
Check if you have cpan configured to use 'your' make. `sudo perl -MCPAN -eshell ... cpan[1]> o conf` [download] and check if you have something like `make [/usr/bin/make]`	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Installing modules on Mac OS X by larus (Acolyte) on Feb 26, 2009 at 20:06 UTC
After a little bit goooogling I found this `http://sial.org/howto/perl/life-with-cpan/` [download] and I wrote `sudo perl -MCPAN -eshell cpan> o conf make /usr/bin/make cpan> o conf commit` [download] And after this EVERYTHING SEEMS TO WORK FINE, and cpan is also working!! Great! For example installing Getopt::Long works fine `cpan> install Getop::Long ---snip--- /usr/bin/make test -- OK Running make install Manifying blib/man3/Getopt::Long.3pm Installing /System/Library/Perl/5.8.8/newgetopt.pl Installing /System/Library/Perl/5.8.8/Getopt/Long.pm Installing /usr/share/man/man3/Getopt::Long.3pm Writing /System/Library/Perl/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level/auto/Get +opt/Long/.packlist Appending installation info to /System/Library/Perl/5.8.8/darwin-threa +d-multi-2level/perllocal.pod /usr/bin/make install -- OK` [download] Thanks!	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Installing modules on Mac OS X by larus (Acolyte) on Feb 26, 2009 at 18:34 UTC
Thanks, it seems that there is no configuration for make `---snip--- keep_source_where /Users/larus/.cpan/sources lynx make make_arg make_install_arg makepl_arg ncftp ncftpget no_proxy pager /usr/bin/less prerequisites_policy ask scan_cache atstart shell /bin/bash tar /usr/bin/tar term_is_latin 1 unzip /usr/bin/unzip urllist wget ---snip---` [download] How should I configure it? Thank you for your help.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: Installing modules on Mac OS X by Anonymous Monk on Feb 26, 2009 at 18:43 UTC
help o conf	[reply]
Re^6: Installing modules on Mac OS X by Anonymous Monk on Feb 28, 2009 at 08:27 UTC
Re^5: Installing modules on Mac OS X by olus (Curate) on Feb 26, 2009 at 18:44 UTC
On your cpan shell type `o conf make /usr/bin/make o conf commit` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^6: Installing modules on Mac OS X by Anonymous Monk on Jul 03, 2010 at 16:01 UTC
Re^3: Installing modules on Mac OS X by jhourcle (Prior) on Feb 26, 2009 at 17:02 UTC
The problem is that something that works fine on one system breaks in another OS. It's pretty much like languages -- what's easy to write in Perl might not be so easy to write in Ruby, and visa-versa. The same with expressing ideas in French vs. English. With systems, it's one thing to deal with a fresh install, and yet another to deal with a system that'd been used for years, with whatever's been installed, a few major OS updates, etc. In theory with MacOSX, it should just be a matter of installing the dev tools, and issuing the command '`sudo cpan`'. If you're manually installing the modules, it _will_not_ install dependancies, they might 'make' but they'll give errors when you 'make test'. (assuming the module author put in the appropriate tests).	[reply] [d/l]