Subsections
2.7 System-specific notes
Some operating systems have issues or quirks that need to be worked around. If your OS is listed here, make sure you read its section before installing.
- libz.so needs to be softlinked to libz.so.1 if it doesn't exist
- before you can install Scoop you will need the developer tools (XCode) or you won't be able to compile any of the perl modules.
- the default Apache included with OS X works fine just by having it load mod_perl
- CPAN does not seem to like making all the perl modules; make fails with no useful error message. If you find this to be the case installing them by hand (outside of CPAN) works fine. It's tedious, but not particularly complicated, as most perl modules have the same install instructions, differing only in their prerequisites (which are listed in their README files). See the items below for a few prerequisite quirks.
- Once the modules are installed, CPAN recognizes them and the install script works fine.
- MySQL is not in your path, so you'll have to edit the perl module's Makefile.PL (line 174) and put in the full path to mysql_config.
- fink has an expat package, but installs it in a non-standard location so you'll have to make sure the XML modules find it when compiling them
janra
2004-03-26