[clarkgoble]

I'd mentioned in the Fink Commander thread the fact Perl brok Fink. Over at the OSX Hints forum they had a discussion of all this.

http://forums.macosxhints.com/showth...9973#post39973

Apparently Apple has some tech notes that you should read before installing Perl.

http://developer.apple.com/internet/macosx/perl.html

Those assumed that you installed Perl the normal Unix way. However the installer I used was a full OSX installer and I assumed (wrongly) that some of those issues would have been taken care of. Further they didn't direct me to that tech note. So I had no idea there would be problems. (Oh the fool that I was)

In addition you have to totally rebuild a lot of fink to get it to work with the new version of Perl. Apparently 5.8 and prior versions of Perl are not binary compatible. (Whatever that means - I thought Perl was interpreted, but I gather some have built code that uses Perl source)

http://archive.develooper.com/macosx.../msg02447.html

Without going through the details of the problem, here is the resolution. Execute the following commands:

mv /sw/lib/perl5/darwin/Storable.pm /tmp
mv /sw/lib/perl5/darwin/auto/Storable /tmp
fink rebuild storable-pm

You may have to do the above for any other binary modules in /sw/lib/perl5. However this should do the trick unless you added anything unusual.

[clarkgoble]

Just thought I'd give an update. I went through the Apple note on Perl and found a few things that the installer for Perl didn't set up.

First of CPAN appeared to require NcFTP. So I built that. Its available at

http://www.ncftpd.com/ncftp/

Anyway, I think went and tried to redo all the XS modules in /sw/lib/perl5/darwin. However I kept get compile errors in weird places. At the moment I'm reinstalling Fink from scratch, to see if that fixes things.