An open Letter to Perl.org and Aaron Faby:
Perl.org's source code and your package distribution of the Perl 5.8.0 package may cause problems with Mac OS X applications such as command line tools such as CPAN, Fink, among others. I discovered the problem by trying to update perl 5.6.0 to 5.8.0. Like many others, I first tried Apple's instructions on installing perl-5.8.0. Then I tried Aaron Faby's package installer. Both gave the same problem. I kept getting errors in various dyld: perl Undefined symbols. After many hours of frustration and web searching, I think I have eliminated the problem. It seems the build either has an older version of Storable.pm or the standard Mac OS X perl-5.6.0 isn't overwritten using the latest Storable.pm (hidden in the darwin and/or perl5 folders).Hope this helps someone, and maybe somebody smarter than me can figure out how to get Apple or Perl.org to correct the problem.This has been reported before in a few locations (1, 2, 3,4).
The solution for me was to (having tried the method on the above page and failed) load a fresh OS X install (with perl-5.6.0) on one drive, and and second fresh OS X install on a second drive (using your distribution of perl-5.8.0). I installed Fink on the first drive and installed the latest version of Storable.pm-2.07. I used PathFinder from CocoaTech to track down the older Storable.pm perl modules:
file://localhost/System/Library/Perl/darwin/Storable.pm file://localhost/System/Library/Perl/darwin/auto/Storable/ file://localhost/System/Library/Perl/Memoize/Storable.pmI then substituted the updated versions on the second drive. Everything worked beautifully. No more dyld: perl Undefined symbols! I've included the perl crash log for reference (attached in the remainder of the hint).Sincerely,
Michael M. Taylor, M.D.
The Perl crash log:
********** Perl version 5.8.0 Date/Time: 2003-05-10 09:40:00 -0400 OS Version: 10.2.6 (Build 6L60) Command: perl PID: 11760 Exception: EXC_BREAKPOINT (0x0006) Code[0]: 0x00000001Code[1]: 0x8fe01280 Thread 0 Crashed: #0 0x8fe01280 in halt #1 0x8fe106b4 in link_in_need_modules #2 0x8fe12230 in _dyld_link_module #3 0x90016ac8 in NSLinkModule #4 0x00001c7c in XS_DynaLoader_dl_load_file #5 0x00180060 in Perl_pp_entersub #6 0x001796f8 in Perl_runops_standard #7 0x0011c564 in S_run_body #8 0x0011c158 in perl_run #9 0x00001a9c in main #10 0x0000178c in _start (crt.c:267) #11 0x0000160c in start PPC Thread State: srr0: 0x8fe01280 srr1: 0x0002d030 vrsave: 0x00000000 xer: 0x20000000 lr: 0x8fe09c38 ctr: 0x8fe29468 mq: 0x00000000 r0: 0x00000004 r1: 0xbffff320 r2: 0x8fe0b7f4 r3: 0x00000086 r4: 0x00000000 r5: 0x00000086 r6: 0x0000000a r7: 0x6c5f6765 r8: 0x7376005f r9: 0x00000000 r10: 0x8fe4850c r11: 0x0000000c r12: 0x8fe71aad r13: 0x002a0af0 r14: 0x00209adc r15: 0x0020fb1c r16: 0x0020c0b4 r17: 0x0020c0b4 r18: 0x00000046 r19: 0x003dd7e0 r20: 0x0020fb1c r21: 0x00209984 r22: 0x00000001 r23: 0x00000000 r24: 0x0020fb1c r25: 0x00001af0 r26: 0x00001af0 r27: 0x0001d4cc r28: 0x8fe4841c r29: 0x8fe484ec r30: 0x8fe484ec r31: 0x8fe099bc **********
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