Re: [MacPerl-Modules] whatup with module spaces & paths?

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 17.06 +0100 2000.01.25, Francisco J. Ricardo wrote:
>Using MacPerl 5.20r4 (patchlevel 5.004). I am *embarrassed* to ask such a
>simple question, but it's haunting me... It's a question about the pathname
>inclusions, 'use' and 'use lib' commands, why Makefile.PL doesn't seem to
>work for me on MacPerl (even when I change "/" to ":" in pathname
>specifications).

Makefile.PL doesn't do much for MacPerl.  Read macperlmodinstall for more
information.

    http://pudge.net/macperl/macperlmodinstall.html


>I'm specifically trying to use the DBI module, which seems promising, since
>I need SQL access through MacPerl.
>
>Let me be REAL clear. In the MacPerl:lib directory, I dropped the DBI:
>folder, which contains other subfolders Bundle:, DBD: DBI: and Win32: as
>well as some admin folders and files (e.g., XS files). I copied the DBI.pm
>out of there and into the MacPerl:lib file, in the same way as with CGI.pm,
>whose structure is like this:

DBI needs to be compiled with a C compiler.  That is what the XS files are
for.  This is not an automatic process with MacPerl.  macperlmodinstall
explains it.  The DBI module is available precompiled; macperl modinstall
tells you about the MMP (MacPerl Module Porters) site.


>BTW, the same problem goes for all my other sub-folder modules too, e.g.,
>for Apache.pm inside Lincoln Stein's CGI folder; I get the same error or a
>similar (e.g., "Can't locate Apache.pm in @INC") error message, with any 1
>of these:
>
>use Apache;
>use 'CGI::Apache';
>use CGI::Apache;

Mac OS does not have Apache, so I don't know how you could get Apache to
work with MacPerl.

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