Re: [MacPerl-WebCGI] Faq-O-Matic under MacPerl

[Vicki Brown <vlb@cfcl.com>]

At 09:31 -0700 7/22/99, Chuck Rice wrote:
> Has anyone gotten Faq-O-Matic to run under MacPerl. I am a bit of a Perl Newbie, but I would really like to get Faq-O-Matic running. I have several other Perl CGIs running already, but when I try to install Faq-O-Matic, the Make fails. When I try to hand install it, I can get as far as to get the configure panel up, but it inserts the wrong IP address in following submits and I have permission problems with -w, and on and on and on.
> 
> Has someone ported this, or are there instructions somewhere? The Faq-O-Matic at <http://www.macperl.com/~fom/macperl/fom-serve/cache/1.html> did not have the answer and I got no response from mailing the feedback address. -Chuck-


Well, the last time this came up, this was the result:

At 11:42 -0400 6/4/99, Jon Howell wrote:
>>Vicki wrote:
>> Unfortunately, I'm not sure this is possible, as the Faq-o-matic 
>> relies rather heavily on the RCS (revision control system) suite for 
>> changes, and RCS has not been ported to MacOS, to my knowledge.
> That's actually not a huge barrier. One could either do without RCS
> altogether, or implement some cheesier, more space-sucking scheme,
> such as saving a complete copy of every revision of every file.
> The other tricks would be sending email (but I think there's a CPAN module
> that speaks SMTP) and cron (would have to write a very simple Perl
> script that ran as a separate mac app, I would guess).
> 
>> Otherwise,I think it's straightforward Perl... I don't know if it 
>> specifically requires Perl 5.005. There is, unfortunately, no good 
>> way to do a "make install" on MacOS.  It might be possible to simply 
>> install things in the right places..., but I have no idea if the 
>> result would run.
> In fact, you can run it right from the source dir if your @INC is set
> right (say, with 'use lib'). That's how I run it on my development
> box.
> 
> I would be happy to provide help to someone doing a mac port.
> 
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