Re^2: @INC Problems in Mac OSX Snow Leopard

"I think it is related to the fact that some Snow Leopard applications can be both 64bit and 32bit at the same time. "

I looked up some more of the specifics after reading your post. For what it's worth: here's what I found on the various Perl installs on Mac 10.6:

I don't know... Maybe I would be better off just compiling my own version of Perl and going from there.

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Re^3: @INC Problems in Mac OSX Snow Leopard by pemungkah (Priest) on Oct 22, 2010 at 02:28 UTC
You would be, definitely. Until I started building my own Perl (and telling it to include the system Perl libs in its @INC), I had nothing but trouble, especially when doing system updates. If you build your own, it's guaranteed to have the options you wanted, as opposed to whatever Apple has decided are the right ones. A `./Configure -d` should build you a workable Perl without you having to answer any questions. If you're into customizing it, leave off the `-d` and you can customize it to death. Or you can use MacPorts or (maybe) brew to install Perl.	[reply]

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Re^3: @INC Problems in Mac OSX Snow Leopard
by pemungkah (Priest) on Oct 22, 2010 at 02:28 UTC

Until I started building my own Perl (and telling it to include the system Perl libs in its @INC), I had nothing but trouble, especially when doing system updates.

If you build your own, it's guaranteed to have the options you wanted, as opposed to whatever Apple has decided are the right ones.

A ./Configure -d should build you a workable Perl without you having to answer any questions. If you're into customizing it, leave off the -d and you can customize it to death.

Or you can use MacPorts or (maybe) brew to install Perl.

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