Re: New to Mac - need help compiling a package

[email protected] (Shai Simchi)
Newsgroups perl.macosx
Message-ID <C61B7153.128%[email protected]>
I get pretty much the same results after installing xcode. When I do the
Makefile.PL --bootstrap

But when I just type make this time I get:
No targets specified and no makefile foundmake: *** .  Stop.

Anything I am doing wrong now?

Thanks,

Shai


On 4/27/09 2:07 PM, "Chas. Owens" <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
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