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From:
David R. Morrison
Date:
April 25, 2003 07:38
Subject:
Re: Perl 5.8 and dyld issues
Message ID:
200304251437.h3PEbwr11701@koala.math.duke.edu
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
> 

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