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Postings from January 2002
FYI... I recently noticed that I was unable to "perl Makefile.pl; make" modules from source directories that I had mounted from a Mac OS X Server to my Mac OS X desktop machine using Apple's standard AFP file sharing, and after struggling for a bit found the problem. Comparing an "ls -l" of a local directory with a remote one mounted via the Finder's "Connect to Server..." command, I noticed that the remote directory always reported 1 for the number of links in subdirectories. (See below.) It turns out that File::Find uses that information to speed up directory recursion, so when building in a remote directory, folders like lib/ and the like were never explored, and the build would fail. I fixed this by manually patching my local copy of File::Find to hard-code $File::Find::dont_use_nlink = 1. Longer-term, it looks like Chris Nandor has a patch to the MacPerl version of File::Find that correctly detects when it's safe to use the nlink value; if that makes it in to the standard distribution the problem should go away. (I think.) http://archive.develooper.com/perl5-changes-mac@perl.org/msg00079.html -Simon --- [stellar:~] admin% ls -l /Library/ total 0 drwxrwxr-x 11 root admin 330 Dec 19 12:44 Application Support drwxrwxr-x 5 root admin 264 Sep 14 23:43 Audio drwxr-xr-x 4 root admin 264 Oct 12 23:49 Caches drwxrwxr-x 4 root admin 264 Sep 11 06:29 ColorSync drwxrwxr-x 21 root admin 670 Oct 12 23:34 Desktop Pictures drwxrwxr-x 9 root admin 264 Oct 23 04:35 Documentation .... [stellar:~] admin% ls -l /Volumes/MacOSX/Library/ total 0 drwxrwxrwx 1 admin unknown 264 Feb 25 2001 Application Support drwxr-xr-x 1 admin unknown 264 Sep 18 20:25 Audio drwxrwxrwx 1 admin unknown 264 Nov 8 00:11 Caches drwxr-xr-x 1 admin unknown 264 Sep 18 20:24 ColorSync drwxr-xr-x 1 admin unknown 704 Nov 8 00:38 Desktop Pictures drwxr-xr-x 1 admin unknown 264 Oct 23 04:35 Documentation ....