Re: New to Mac - need help compiling a package

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 17:01, Shai Simchi <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi and thanks for the info.
> I have tried your option 1 and it fails during perl Makefile.PL --bootstrap
> With the following error:
>  CPAN.pm: Going to build A/AD/ADAMK/File-HomeDir-0.86.tar.gz
>
> Checking if your kit is complete...
> Looks good
> 'INSTALL_BASE' is not a known MakeMaker parameter name.
> Writing Makefile for File::HomeDir
>    -- NOT OK
> Running make test
> Running make install
>  Can't test without successful make
>  make had returned bad status, install seems impossible
> Running make for A/AN/ANDK/CPAN-1.9304.tar.gz
>  Is already unwrapped into directory
> /Users/shaisimchi/.cpan/build/CPAN-1.9304
>
>  CPAN.pm: Going to build A/AN/ANDK/CPAN-1.9304.tar.gz
>
>    -- NOT OK
> Running make test
>  Can't test without successful make
> Running make install
>  make had returned bad status, install seems impossible
> *** CPAN installation failed.
> *** Module::AutoInstall installation finished.
> Warning: prerequisite CPAN 1.80 not found. We have 1.760200.
> Warning: prerequisite ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.31 not found. We have 6.300.
> 'INSTALL_BASE' is not a known MakeMaker parameter name.
> Writing Makefile for local::lib
>
> In addition I have earlier tried option 2 but the make command fails with
> the following error:
> bash: make: command not found
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Shai
>
>
> On 4/27/09 1:48 PM, "Chas. Owens" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> tar xvfz local-lib-1.003003.tar.gz
>
>
>

Hmm, you may need to install xcode[1].  It is basically Apple's
version of gcc and associated utilities.  Luckily it is free.

1. http://developer.apple.com/technology/xcode.html

-- 
Chas. Owens
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