Building Perl

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woodix

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So I decided I should take advantage of my system's unix underpinnings and do something with my bandwidth at work too. I grabbed the most recent stable copy of perl from CPAN and set to installing it. The install is pretty straight forward, ran sh Configure -de from the cli and waited...not too long of a wait either since the installer script dropped an error and quit. Couldn't find make. So I installed the Devo tools (Forgot to do that after I installed my new drive...oops) and gave her another go. Success! Or so I thought. The configure script worked like a charm until it got to my C compiler. The default answer is cc so it tried to use cc I guess. It just couldn't find it. Now what?

Help would be most appreciated. I'd really like some play time with perl and I'd rather use the most recent version instead of what came with OS X.

Many thanks

woodix
 
Hi, just thought I'd ask if you knew that perl is already installed on your system. Bring up a terminal and type: which perl and it should tell you it's in: /usr/bin/perl

Were you just trying to install a newer version? I'm running version 5.6.0 of perl on Mac OS 10.1.2.
 
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