Re: cpan installation failing on 10.5.7

On Jul 10, 2009, at 10:02 AM, Noah Garrett Wallach wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I am not sure why but the cpan install is failing on my osx 10.5.7  
> machine.  Looks like force is an option is that the recommended way  
> to go?
>
> Command:
> sudo perl -MCPAN -e 'install CPAN'


Since it appears that the current effort to 'install CPAN' is into the  
standard Apple distribution, why not just download and install the  
version of AppleEvents that is desired?

eg: http://search.cpan.org/~cnandor/Mac-Carbon-0.77/

and do the force install on just that.

This would satisfy the requirement for

> That's what I've done in the past. It seems Mac::Carbon has a  
> failing test, which cascades to File::HomeDir. http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=File-HomeDir 
>  for more info on the tests.


that kenny noted.

note, CPAN is installed by default with apple's 10.5.7, and it has the  
nice fix:

   @INC:
     /Library/Perl/Updates/5.8.8
     /System/Library/Perl/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level
     /System/Library/Perl/5.8.8

so that any of the dual life modules can be updated independently.

So I am a little confused on why there is a need to 'install it'.


ciao
drieux

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