[MacPerl] Re:OS X Server & Perl

[Nathaniel Irons <lexical@bumppo.net>]

On 2/22/2000 at 3:46 PM, lowrey@mailbag.com (Jefferson R. Lowrey) wrote:

> OS X Server (and I must admit I don't have 1.2 yet) comes with plain
> old Perl, not MacPerl at all.  It should be possible to run MacPerl in
> MacOS.app (Classic/bluebox/your name of choice), but there'd be no
> reason to.

I also don't have 1.2 yet, but through 1.1 at least, be aware that the
shipped version of Config.pm is either broken, or from some mythical
rhapsody-intel release.  It becomes a problem when you try to build a
module involving any XS code -- the resulting modules are generated for
i386, apparently, and the module's tests then quickly run aground.

The fix is to take /System/Library/Perl/rhapsody/Config.pm, and wipe out
all instances of the string "-arch i386 -arc ppc".  That's from memory,
so the string may be very slightly different, but it'll be clear enough
when you're in there.

Building a new version of perl should also fix it, of course.  Aside
from this little peculiarity, I've been very happy with perl under OSXS.

  -nat

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