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Posted by Jim Gibson on March 21, 2008, 3:44 pm
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This is a heads-up for Mac Perl users.
Yesterday I took the plunge and downloaded the Perl 5.10.0 source and
built it on my Mac Pro running OSX 10.5.2. I used all of the default
configuration parameters, except building for threads, for which I said
"yes".
The build went OK, but 'make test' had one error in lib/locale.t,
something about a missing locale for test 99, which appears to be the
"C" locale.
I went ahead and did the install, anyway, since I am not too concerned
about locales. Everything looked fine, and I was able to update a CPAN
module that wasn't testing well under perl 5.10.
Today I ran the cpan shell to install a module and encountered the
following error:
jgibson 129% cpan
CPAN: File::HomeDir loaded ok (v0.65)
Can't locate Mac/Files.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /sw/lib/perl5
/sw/lib/perl5/darwin /Users/gibson/Library/Perl
/Users/gibson/Library/Perl/CPAN
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.10.0/darwin-thread-multi-2level
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.10.0
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/darwin-thread-multi-2level
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl
/Users/gibson/Library/Perl/src/Mac-Carbon-0.77) at
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/File/HomeDir/Darwin.pm line 54.
The Mac::Files entry at CPAN points to:
(<http://search.cpan.org/~cnandor/Mac-Carbon-0.77/Files/Files.pm>)
I downloaded the tar file and tried to install with the "tar x;perl
Makefile.PL;make;make test;make install" sequence. "make test" fails on
AppleEvents/t/event with a "Too many arguments to AEBuildParameters()"
error.
This looks like a 10.5.2 incompatibility. There are already 2 bugs
submitted to CPAN for what looks like this problem.
Has anybody else seen this problem? Is there a workaround? If not, I
will have to wait for the hopefully forthcoming fix. :(
--
Jim Gibson
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