Re: Leopard Upgrade Killed my Modules

brian d foy wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>, Elton
> Hughes <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Hello All,
>>
>> I upgraded to Mac OSX 10.5, using the upgrade option, and the modules  
>> I downloaded from CPAN are now missing.
> 
> You probably had them installed in Mac OS X's Perl directories. 
> 
> I install my own perls (and have many installed) each with their own
> roots:
> 
> $ ls -l /usr/local/perls
> drwxr-xr-x   5 root   wheel  170 Dec  2 12:13 perl-5.10.0-rc2
> drwxrwxr-x   5 brian  wheel  170 Mar 14  2007 perl-5.6.2
> drwxrwxr-x   5 brian  wheel  170 Sep 22 13:02 perl-5.6.2-dist
> drwxrwxr-x   6 brian  wheel  204 Apr 10  2007 perl-5.8.8-for-pugs
> drwxr-xr-x   5 brian  wheel  170 Feb 22  2007 perl-5.8.8-threaded
> drwxr-xr-x   4 brian  wheel  136 Feb 22  2007
> perl-5.8.8-threaded-debugging
> drwxr-xr-x   5 brian  wheel  170 Feb 26  2007 perl-5.9.4
> drwxrwxr-x   5 brian  wheel  170 Aug 19 01:42 perl-5.9.5
> drwxrwxr-x   5 brian  wheel  170 Oct  7 18:45 perl-5.9.5-for-kp6
> drwxrwxr-x   5 brian  wheel  170 Sep 30 17:16 perl4
> drwxr-xr-x  24 brian  brian  816 Mar 13  2007 perlbench-0.93
> 
> I think have links in /usr/local/bin to each of the interpreters I like
> to use:
> 
> $ ls -l /usr/local/bin/perl*
> -rwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  1103676 Apr  9  2007 /usr/local/bin/perl
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel       47 Dec  2 12:44
> /usr/local/bin/perl5.10.0 ->
> /usr/local/perls/perl-5.10.0-rc2/bin/perl5.10.0
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel       41 Aug 16 00:00
> /usr/local/bin/perl5.6.2 -> /usr/local/perls/perl-5.6.2/bin/perl5.6.2
> -rwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  1103676 Apr  9  2007 /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.8
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel       41 Sep 29 14:38
> /usr/local/bin/perl5.9.5 -> /usr/local/perls/perl-5.9.5/bin/perl5.9.5
> 
> When I want to install modules, I use the right interpreter with
> cpan(1):
> 
> $ perl5.10.0 cpan Foo Bar

Hey brian,

Do you typically just take the defaults when compiling Perl?

Robert