port install zim fails, possibly on a perl error.

[Bradley Giesbrecht]

On Jan 2, 2011, at 3:39 PM, Derek Schutt wrote:

> For what it's worth, one of the posters to the bug tracking page  
> reported that for help2man:
> The problem was that perl's Locale::gettext was not properly  
> installed. Attempting to install it through ports or cpan also  
> failed, complaining of a missing libintl, or being unable to find  
> the gettext libs.
>
> I was able to install Locale::gettext by obtaining the source, and  
> running
>
> CC='cc -I/opt/local/include -L/opt/local/lib ' perl Makefile.PL
>
> before 'make && make install'
>
> After Locale::gettext was installed, I was able to install help2man  
> through ports.
>
> For me finding and installing the source code for a perl library  
> seems more trouble than it is worth.    I'm starting to  think if I  
> want linux-y type things like GNU software, my best best may be just  
> to install a linux distro in a virtual machine.   I'm digressing off  
> topic here, but just the fact that I have to register as an Apple  
> Developer and give them all sorts of personal information to get  
> Xcode makes me think trying to use the *nix tools with which I am  
> familiar is going to be a pain.   I was hoping I could have the best  
> of both worlds with my Mac, but I'm starting to be pessimistic.    I  
> hope someone will tell me I'm wrong though!

In my experience most ports install as expected.

Brad