Re: [MacPerl-Modules] Perl on OS X

[Paul Schinder <schinder@pobox.com>]

At 12:50 PM -0600 11/9/00, Bill Stephenson wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I'm new to this list and ask your forgivness if this is OT. I'm having
>trouble locating a discussion list that focuses on Mac OS X and perl. If
>anyone knows of one, please point me in the right direction.
>
>I've got a problem on Mac OS X when using a standard upload script
>(Lincoln's demo) that requires CGI.pm. I get this error;
>
>"CGI open of tmpfile: No such file or directory"

I'll bet it's looking for /tmp or /var/tmp.  Is there such a thing in OS X?

>
>Any suggestions on how I might debug/fix this are much appreciated!

Use grep to look for tmp in CGI.pm.  Having done so on a Linux box, 
it looks like you can set TMPDIR in the environment to point CGI.pm 
to a valid directory.

>
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