I needed to get my perl installation updated to do some development locally. As usual, perl was a pain in the ass. Long story short: Install Xcode 3.0, copy the “reentr.inc” file from the 5.8.8 source distribution, and DBI should install.<\/p>\n
Below is the long-winded log of my woes, offered in the hopes it might help someone.<\/p>\n
First, DBI 1.604 wouldn’t install via cpan, so I tried installing it by hand. But I just got the same error when running “make”:<\/p>\n
I found this blog post, “Leopard Perl 5.8.8 installation throws errors when compiling (makefile)”<\/a> mentioning the exact message, which recommended copying the CORE directory from 5.8.6 instead the above location. I tried that, but then I got this error instead:<\/p>\n Googling these error messages turned up surprisingly little. On another blog with a post titled, “Mac OS 10.5: Leopard”<\/a> that mentioned difficulties with DBI, commenters suggested various solutions, but none of them worked for me. The blog author got an older version of DBI to install but I couldn’t get that to work either.<\/p>\n I discovered that Xcode 3.0 (developer tools for Leopard) contains the 5.8.8 files that belong in that CORE directory. This seemed like a better option than copying the probably outdated 5.8.6 files. You can get the gigantic Xcode disk image, a whopping 1.1 gigabytes, from the Apple Developer Connection<\/a> site. Registration is required through the “Member” link, and once you’re in, go to Downloads and search for Xcode.<\/p>\n Before installing Xcode, I cleared out the hosed CORE directory I’d been mucking with. “DeveloperTools.pkg” is what contains the perl headers, so you can probably get away with just installing that (double-click it), instead of the entire XcodeTools.pkg. It did the trick: the compiler was now finding the “GvSVn” symbol it couldn’t before. But now I got this message during make:<\/p>\n In desperation, I downloaded the perl 5.8.8 source distribution tarball<\/a>, and simply copied reentr.inc into the CORE directory. Voila! Make went to completion and I could install the module. From there, I went back into cpan to install DBD::mysql without any problems (you need mysql installed in the default location, \/usr\/local\/mysql, of course).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I needed to get my perl installation updated to do some development locally. As usual, perl was a pain in the ass. Long story short: Install Xcode 3.0, copy the “reentr.inc” file from the 5.8.8 source distribution, and DBI should install. Below is the long-winded log of my woes, offered in the hopes it might … Continue reading “Installing DBI on Leopard’s perl 5.8.8”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,15,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-admin","category-macos","category-perl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/codefork.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/codefork.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/codefork.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codefork.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codefork.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/codefork.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/codefork.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codefork.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codefork.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}No rule to make target `\/System\/Library\/Perl\/5.8.8\/darwin-thread-multi-2level\/CORE\/config.h', needed by `Makefile'.<\/code><\/p>\nDBI.xs: In function \u2018dbi_profile\u2019:
\nDBI.xs:2398: warning: implicit declaration of function \u2018GvSVn\u2019
\nDBI.xs:2398: error: invalid lvalue in assignment
\nDBI.xs: In function \u2018dbi_profile\u2019:
\nDBI.xs:2398: warning: implicit declaration of function \u2018GvSVn\u2019
\nDBI.xs:2398: error: invalid lvalue in assignment
\nDBI.xs: In function \u2018XS_DBI_dispatch\u2019:
\nDBI.xs:2970: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
\nDBI.xs:2972: error: invalid lvalue in assignment
\nDBI.xs:2985: error: invalid type argument of \u2018->\u2019
\nDBI.xs:2989: error: invalid lvalue in assignment
\nDBI.xs:3293: warning: unused variable \u2018Perl___notused\u2019
\nDBI.xs: In function \u2018XS_DBI_dispatch\u2019:
\nDBI.xs:2970: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
\nDBI.xs:2972: error: invalid lvalue in assignment
\nDBI.xs:2985: error: invalid type argument of \u2018->\u2019
\nDBI.xs:2989: error: invalid lvalue in assignment<\/code><\/p>\nIn file included from DBIXS.h:19,
\n from Perl.xs:6:
\n\/System\/Library\/Perl\/5.8.8\/darwin-thread-multi-2level\/CORE\/perl.h:3993:22: error: reentr.inc: No such file or directory
\nIn file included from DBIXS.h:19,
\n from Perl.xs:6:
\n\/System\/Library\/Perl\/5.8.8\/darwin-thread-multi-2level\/CORE\/perl.h:3993:22: error: reentr.inc: No such file or directory
\nlipo: can't open input file: \/var\/tmp\/\/ccQ8vbDU.out (No such file or directory)
\nmake: *** [Perl.o] Error 1<\/code><\/p>\n