Perl Installation Issues

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Oct 14, 2009, at 09:23, Blake Farman wrote:

>   I've had some trouble lately getting Perl to install properly with  
> macports (I need macports to install it since it's a dep for several  
> packages I wish to install).  I've included the output from port  
> around where the install hangs below.  I'm not sure why, but it  
> seems that the perl installer isn't looking anywhere for my c lib.   
> I know I have one, and I even recently upgraded the perl install in  
> my base system without any troubles,

How do you mean, upgraded the perl install in your base system?

> but port can't seem to manage to figure things out.  I'm a recent  
> mac convert (coming from Gentoo) and I'm not terribly familiar with  
> macports, so I'm a little lost on how to fix this one myself.  If  
> anyone could give me some idea of how to fix this, I'd be eternally  
> grateful.
>
> --->  Computing dependencies for perl5..
> --->  Configuring perl5.8
> ...
> Operating system name? [sysv]
> Operating system version? [9.8.0]
> Installation prefix to use? (~name ok) [/opt/local]
> ...
> Any additional ld flags (NOT including libraries)?
> [-L/opt/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib]
> ...
> Checking for GNU C Library...
> Shall I use /usr/bin/nm to extract C symbols from the libraries? [y]
> I can't seem to find your C library.  I've looked in the following  
> places:

I see you're running Mac OS X 10.5.8. What version of Xcode is  
installed? The latest version for Leopard is 3.1.4.