Anyone know how to upgrade from 5.8 to 5.010 on OS X? 1

[peterv12]

I'm running Perl 5.8.9 on OS X Snow Leopard, and I want to upgrade to the latest Perl, version 5.010. I've searched the web for directions, and have found none. Since I've never upgraded a Perl installation, I'd like to get directions from someone who really knows how to do it. If you know, please share

I'll appreciate any help.
Peter V.

 

[Kirsle]

Download Perl, go to a terminal, cd to the downloaded perl's directory and do i.e.

./Configure -des -Dprefix=/usr/local
make
make test
sudo make install

It will install the Perl 5.10 binary to /usr/local/bin/perl (the Perl 5.8 would still be available at /usr/bin/perl and it's recommended you don't try to overwrite this, as other programs in OS X may depend on Perl 5.8 and may break).

Look at the "INSTALL" file that comes with Perl for more info. You may have to install the developer tools from your OS X installation DVD to be able to compile C programs to build Perl.

Alternatively,

http://www.activeperl.com

has a binary port for OS X.

Kirsle.net | My personal homepage

perl -e '$|=$i=1;print" oo\n<|>\n_|_";x:sleep$|;print"\b",$i++%2?"/":"_";goto x;'

 

[peterv12]

Thanks for the help!