Perl Installation Issues

[Blake Farman]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org>wrote:

> 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?


I built perl from source, uninstalled the old version (in /usr) and
installed the new version where the old one was.


>
>  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.
>
> I'm using 3.1.13



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Blake Farman
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