[MacPerl] Re: Problems installing Mac Glue

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 19.05 +0000 1999.12.27, John Delacour wrote:
>At 10:08 pm -0500 26/12/99, Chris Nandor wrote:
>
>>The cpan-mac instructions tell you to put site_perl in your prefs, so it
>>comes before lib.  This could be the cause of problems.  Go into the prefs
>>and add it, if you haven't already.
>
>I had already done this, fwiw.

Before or after you did `print join "\n", @INC`?  Because if it were in
there, it would have come before the "lib" paths, and it didn't.


>> >Part of the problem seems to have been caused by my dropping the expanded
>>>folder onto installme rather than the tar.gz.  At one point in the docs it
>>>says either method will do and at another there is a clear warning to use
>> >the compressed file.
>>
>>There should be no difference in the methods.  What clear warning was there
>>to use the compressed file?
>
>We are warned that MacBinary files may not be decoded.  This is precisely
>what the problem was.

Oh, I see.  That is only if you unpack with something other than installme
or untarzipme.




>Alpha seems a very nice editor for working with Perl, but I seem to be
>having a problem with carriage returns (reported as such but with code
>/012) and the Apple Events Alpha is using.  Taking the text from a
>script that works well in the Perl editor and pasting it into Alpha to
>run it, I get the error reported that "I may have got the file over a
>network and not converted the line endings" or something like that.  No
>matter what I do, even if there is not a cr or a char 12 in sight and
>even if I save the Perl document and open it in Alpha, I can't get rid
>of this error.

I don't use Alpha (I use BBEdit), so I am the wrong person to ask; perhaps
someone else can help?

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