If you have installed Apple's Developer Tools, you can often install the perl modules at search.cpan.org/, but some are a bit of a challenge. I wanted Text::Aspell so I can add spell checking to my perl scripts. Text::Aspell requires aspell to be installed.
Fink is good enough to install aspell, but it only supplies the static libraries (.a) while Apple's install of perl is dynamic (.dynlib). When you grab Text::Aspell, you need to modify the Makefile.pl from:
'LIBS' => ['-laspell'],to:
'LIBS' => ['-L/sw/lib -laspell -laspell-common -lstdc++'],This adds fink's library path to the install, and adds the dependent libraries to the link. Do the normal:
perl Makefile.pl make make test sudo make installAnd you should be good to go.
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