Re: [MacPerl] cpan-mac problems

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 9.38 -0700 2000.04.06, Mike Schienle wrote:
>At 12:02 PM -0400 4/6/00, Chris Nandor wrote:
>>At 17.48 -0700 2000.04.05, Mike Schienle wrote:
>>>Hi all -
>>>
>>>This is the first time I've had to deal with cpan-mac and I'm running
>>  >into something I have no idea how to deal with. I need to interact
>
>...
>
>>  >cpan> make DBD::CSV
>
>...
>
>>  >Doesn't look like a correct DBI installation.
>>
>>Just find the DBIXS.h file and put it in the right place.
>
>OK. Hmm, just tried that - no joy.
>
>After a moment's hesitation about how bad I was going to screw this
>up, I decided to open the Makefile.PL and see what it was looking
>for. I changed the UNIX directories to Mac format in these lines ...
>
>foreach $dir (@INC) {
>     if (-f "$dir/auto/DBI/DBIXS.h") {
>	$DBI_INC_DIR = "-I$dir/auto/DBI";
>	last;
>     }
>}
>
>... and it installed. So, did I screw something up?

/ does not work as a path separator on MacPerl, so the code was wrong.

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