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One way to install Perl's DBI/DBD modules
Authored by: barrettclark on Jan 01, '08 05:24:37AM

Interesting post. I never really was able to get Fink to properly work (and it was crazy slow when it did look like it was doing something). In fact, I'd like to uninstall Fink, but can't. I also can't update it anymore. It got itself corrupted and I can't make it go up or down.

If you can't get the compile to work in the CPAN shell, you can still use CPAN to download the package. Then exit out of CPAN to install it by hand. There are some modules where you pretty much have to do that anyway, or you have to have an external binary installed (eg. GD) for the module to use. It won't follow the dependencies with this method, which is one of the reasons to use something like CPAN or Fink in the first place, so it's not a great workaround.

I haven't played with new Perl modules lately, so it is in fact still broken on my new iMac. That's OK, though. I'm now a recovering perler....



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One way to install Perl's DBI/DBD modules
Authored by: admdikramr on Oct 14, '08 02:18:45PM

In 10.5 at least, there is a much more elegant way to do this:

/Library/Perl/5.8.8/AppendToPath

contains a list of directories that are automatically searched. So, just add

/sw/lib/perl5/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level

...and everything works perfectly.



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