[Zim]

After installing 10.3, I noted that my cpan-installed perl modules were MIA.. I figured it might be good to redownload and install them anyway... I tried once and failed, so I then renamed my ~/.cpan to remove any chance of conflict there and launched cpan again... still the same result...

Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good

Error: Unable to locate installed Perl libraries or Perl source code.

It is recommended that you install perl in a standard location before
building extensions. Some precompiled versions of perl do not contain
these header files, so you cannot build extensions. In such a case,
please build and install your perl from a fresh perl distribution. It
usually solves this kind of problem.

(You get this message, because MakeMaker could not find "/System/Library/Perl/5.8.1/darwin-thread-multi-2level/CORE/perl.h")
Running make test
Make had some problems, maybe interrupted? Won't test
Running make install
Make had some problems, maybe interrupted? Won't install

ideas?

thanks,
Mike

[riverfreak]

Originally posted by Zim:
After installing 10.3, I noted that my cpan-installed perl modules were MIA.. I figured it might be good to redownload and install them anyway... I tried once and failed, so I then renamed my ~/.cpan to remove any chance of conflict there and launched cpan again... still the same result...

Did you have to reconfigure your cpan after you moved it? I wonder if it's reading a different .cpan (like in ~root/.cpan). It seems to be looking in the appropriate path for the perl.h. Bizarre.

[Zim]

Originally posted by riverfreak:
Did you have to reconfigure your cpan after you moved it? I wonder if it's reading a different .cpan (like in ~root/.cpan). It seems to be looking in the appropriate path for the perl.h. Bizarre.

It did go thru the config again, wince it could not find a .cpan directory.

But I have no file in /System/Library/Perl/5.8.1/darwin-thread-multi-2level/CORE/perl.h

for it to find.

Mike

[Zim]

I'm officially "unproud" of this hack, but I found what looked like the right files in /System/Library/Perl/darwin/CORE (vs. /System/Library/Perl/5.8.1/darwin-thread-multi-2level/CORE
)

I created links to the files, and was able to get MIME::Lite to install.

I'm now trying to get DBI installed, and have made use of this hint

http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.macosx/6257

to almost get there.. but not quite yet. Will post more when I get it.

Mike

[incandenza]

I believe /System/Library/Perl/5.8.1/darwin-thread-multi-2level/CORE/perl.h is installed by Xcode. (It is a header file, after all.) I have it on my system.

[Lecynique]

Originally posted by Zim:
After installing 10.3, I noted that my cpan-installed perl modules were MIA.. I figured it might be good to redownload and install them anyway... I tried once and failed, so I then renamed my ~/.cpan to remove any chance of conflict there and launched cpan again... still the same result...



ideas?

thanks,
Mike

Just read this:

10.3: DBD::mysql install trouble and fix
at:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.p...31015212910375

It seems with every release, DBD::mysql does not install be it via CPAN or manual compile. Panther ships with perl 5.8.1 RC3, multi-threads enabled. Previous hints posted on how to upgrade from Jaguar's perl version of 5.6 to 5.8.0 warned that multi-threading was not supported by DBD::mysql, and further searching showed that multi-threading was supported if you were to revert gcc to 2.95 for the compile. None of these hints will help with Panther...

I started searching some email archives and came up with a few posting the same errors I was experiencing but no solutions. So I started hacking away by following all past tips on compiling DBD::mysqlfor OSX 10.2 and perl 5.8.0 with no success. I then remembered installing Bundle::Msql at one point on a different system and decided to try that ... success!

Read on for more on the situation, and official word from Apple on a solution...

Bundle::Msql installs the DBD::mysql package but seems to do it differently than DBD::mysql itself. I sent my success scenario to the macosx@perl.org list (list archive) and received an interesting reply that may very well apply to more than just DBD::mysql:

On 10/15/03 5:58 PM, "Edward Moy" wrote:

We recently discovered the DBD::mysql problem as well. The patch is to edit /System -> Library -> Perl -> 5.8.1 -> darwin-thread-multi-2level -> Config.pm, replacing:

ld='MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.3 cc'

with

ld='env MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.3 cc'

Unfortunately, this change is too late to get into Panther.
---------------------------------------------------------------
Edward Moy
Apple

I have now tested this under perl installed by Panther and it seems to solve the problem ... one thing to note is that I read elsewhere that fink updates @INC and that some packages installed by fink may cause conflicts; specifically noted was Storable.


Hope it'll work

[Zim]

Thanks!!!!

I found that I had to do a "force install Bundle::Msql", as it failed a very few of the tests in the "make test" section, but my perl scripts will now run again (big sigh of relief).

Code:
Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail  Failed  List of Failed
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
t/akmisc.t               351    1   0.28%  44
t/mysql.t                 68    5   7.35%  23-24 46-48
t/mysql2.t                37    1   2.70%  2
1 test and 14 subtests skipped.
Failed 3/17 test scripts, 82.35% okay. 7/746 subtests failed, 99.06% okay.

The "missing" perl files (that I temporarily symlinked) are installed with the Xcode developer tools... odd, but whatever.

Cheers,
Mike

[GATTACA]

Humm..
I'm also trying to install DBD::mysql module but with no luck.
I changed the Config.pm file as described here to no avail. DBI installs flawlessly but DBD::mysql complains that it can't find DBI.pm.

I'm not quite sure what to do about it.