Comments on: Packaging the perl, give it to atom, all on Panther

Question: Packaging the perl, give it to atom, all on Panther

mmangano — Sat, 07 Feb 2004 23:15:30 -0800

I'm trying to write a short Perl script under Mac OS X (Panther) to post to a Moveable Type weblog using the Atom API. After some initial problems with installing packages, I'm having this issue. [more inside]

I get the following error: Can't locate XML/LibXML.pm in @INC. Any pointers from you Mac/Perl gurus?

(LibXML.pm is located under: /Users/,username/.cpan/build/XML-LibXML-1.56)

By: fvw

fvw — Sun, 08 Feb 2004 04:54:59 -0800

That doesn't sound like a proper location for the perl module; It should probably get installed somewhere in the module paths listed when you do 'perl -V'. If you insist on using it there, make a symlink from XML-LibXML-1.56 to 'XML' in that same directory, and put use lib '/Users/,username/.cpan/build/'; at the top of your script. This adds your CPAN build dir to your module path list. (Once again, this is very probably not what you want to do).

By: thebabelfish

thebabelfish — Sun, 08 Feb 2004 05:33:53 -0800

LibXML.pm shouldn't be there; that is the default CPAN.pm build dir. Log in as root (e.g. with su in a terminal) and try: perl -MCPAN -e 'install XML::LibXML'