[ic] re: installing / permission denied.. ack!
Peter
peter at pajamian.dhs.org
Mon Jan 14 06:59:09 EST 2008
On 01/13/2008 11:11 PM, Announcements from Emerald CIty Music
Productions, Inc. wrote:
> HI I am installing interchange on my MAC and have perl 5.8.1 in the
> system folder.
> when I input the address and type Makefile.PL.. I get an error message
> saying:
> that permission denied.
It sounds like you're trying to run Makefile.pl from a browser, you
can't do that. You need to run it from a terminal or shell.
If that's not the case please provide more detail of exactly what you're
trying to do and the exact error message you get, not just generalizations.
> so then I figured maybe because it's perl 5.8.1 and not 5.6.2 as per the
> documentation.. so I downloaded 5.6.2 and put it in the system folder.
> but it won't let me put it there.. ugh
It's 5.6.2 or later, 5.8.1 is good enough, but you should check that
it's non-threaded ("perl --version" will tell you if it's threaded).
Otherwise download and compile the latest 5.8 version of perl (I believe
5.8.10). 5.8.1 is early in the 5.8 release cycle and now considered old
and buggy (5.6.2 is *way* old). I can't give specifics of where to put
it on a mac, though.
Peter
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