Re: New Perl-Installation on new OS X

Good morning,

On 9/06/11 at 4:40 PM +0100, John Delacour <[email protected]> wrote:

>One thing to remember, of course, is that to add modules with=20
>cpan to 5.14.0 so configured, rather than to Apple's=20
>installation, you need to
>
>cd /usr/local/bin; sudo ./cpan

I haven't followed all of this thread (it was digressing there=20
for a while). Would perlbrew be a solution for the OP. I've only=20
been using it a short while but it makes installing and using a=20
custom perl very simple.

<http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?perlbrew>

Eg:

$ perlbrew install perl-5.14.0
$ perlbrew switch perl-5.14.0
$ cpan ....

Works a treat for me.


Charlie

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