[Bioperl-l] problems with installing Bioperl on OSX

[Christopher Cavnor]

I am installing Bioperl on a OSX machine and get this message:
*****
Error: Unable to locate installed Perl libraries or Perl source code.

It is recommended that you install perl in a standard location before
building extensions. Some precompiled versions of perl do not contain
these header files, so you cannot build extensions. In such a case,
please build and install your perl from a fresh perl distribution. It
usually solves this kind of problem.

(You get this message, because MakeMaker could not find 
"/System/Library/Perl/darwin/CORE/perl.h")
****

Thats true, perl.h is not in right place, since both Apple preinstalled and 
current Serverlogistics installer are not placing it in that place.

How do I get around it. To install Perl AGAIN having 2 copies already on 
machine sounds....

>> not so bad - check out: http://developer.apple.com/internet/macosx/perl.html

Is there a line in Makefile.pl that could be modified to "show" to location 
of perl.h and the rest of perl.

>> % perl -V will do that. You can also append to the beginning of the @INC array by doing (C shell syntax):

% setenv PERL5LIB /where/to/look

Thanks in advance for any kind of help

Madis Metsis

Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics
Karolinska Institute
Stockholm
Sweden

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