Ken, The advice given at the URL you couldn't open was to remove libperl.dylib from the CORE directory, and then run "make install" again. I don't know if this is good advice or not. -- Dave > Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 09:19:29 -0500 > Subject: Re: Perl 5.8 and dyld issues > Cc: "OS X Perl" <macosx@perl.org>, "Fink" <fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > To: "Zach Lym" <indolering@warpmail.net> > From: Ken Williams <ken@mathforum.org> > > > On Thursday, April 24, 2003, at 02:34 PM, Zach Lym wrote: > > > Hi, I the thread this started on kinda died and it has discovered a new > > problem so here it is: > > I installed Perl 5.8 via apples instructions. > > By the way, the following text in those instructions is misleading: > > "If, after the installation, you get warnings about missing symbols, > you probably have an old version of Perl (or parts of one) in > /Library/Perl." > > No parts of perl itself are in /Library/Perl - it's only for > user-installed modules. It's empty on a fresh install of OS X. > > > > I went through and routed out all the modules (except for Fink and > > Darwin!) that were in the /sw/lib/perl5 and all the other recommeded > > modules (that list.) I basically uninstalled it and then threw away > > the > > archives and non essentials. Instead of getting errors that have 5 > > things I get 2, the same two that is mentioned at the CPAN install doc: > > > > http://search.cpan.org/author/JHI/perl-5.8.0/pod/ > > perldelta.pod#Mac_OS_X_dyld_undefined_symbols > > This seems to be unavailable. > > > So I go hunting in /Library/Perl/darwin to find no CORE folder. They > > recommend moving this folder out.So I did a search of my user Library > > and > > the global one, no Perl in the user and > > no joy in the global. What's up? > > Getting rid of /System/Library/Perl/darwin/CORE/ (which I think they > probably meant) seems like a bad idea. That's where libperl.dylib > lives - what do they recommend using as a libperl instead? Or just > doing without, in a static build? > > > > -Ken >Thread Previous | Thread Next