[Pdx-pm] unhappy CPAN on OS X

[Christopher M. Hiller]

All the headers get installed if you download & install XCode... bah!

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Christopher Hiller
http://chrishiller.net

On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Joshua Keroes wrote:

>
> On Oct 29, 2003, at 5:03 PM, Randall Hansen wrote:
>
> > Fellow Mongers ~
> >
> > The last few days I've been setting up a new Powerbook.  It's all going
> > swimmingly except for one problem with CPAN.  It appears to not be
> > able to
> > use LWP or Net::FTP to fetch tarballs, but it takes *forever* to figure
> > this out before it drops to using vanilla ftp.  It only does this once
> > per
> > session; after it figures out that LWP and Net::FTP are hosed somehow
> > it
> > doesn't try them again.
> >
>
> I wasn't able to use the stock perl with CPAN at all - the perl.h file
> was missing, preventing Good Things from oh, say, working.
>
> I rebuilt Perl with the following invocation. Mind you, Perl ought to
> start faster if staticly linked (viz. useshrplib).
>
> ./Configure -des -D prefix=/usr/local/perl581 -D ccflags='-g -pipe' -D
> ldflags=-Dman3ext=3pm -D useshrplib \
> 	&& make test && make install
>
> When that's complete, just link any or all binaries from
> /usr/local/perl581/bin to /usr/local/bin.
>
> -J
>
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