[Bioperl-l] bioperl and Perl

[Bob Freeman]

Line,

If you already have perl & the dependent libraries for bioperl 
installed (e.g. gd, expat), the easiest and lest time consuming issue 
would be to use Perl v5.6, the version installed w/ Apple's Developer 
Tools (Dec '02). Installing 5.8 involves recompiling any 
user-installed perl modules and associated libraries as v5.8 is 
binary incompatible with previous versions. This would include any 
modules downloaded through Fink. I just spent at least six hours last 
weekend (re)installing v5.8, fink, fink commander, gd, expat, Apple's 
X11, X11 SDK, etc. Of course, if you have a day to kill and a good 
high-speed connection...

Bob

At 3:29 PM +0200 5/20/03, Line Neil wrote:
>I am working on Mac OSX 10.2 and I have apparently a problem after 
>installation of Perl-5.8 to install Bioperl; is there a bug, is it 
>better to reinstall Perl-5.6 for this Bioperl because I need it 
>absolutely.
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>Cordially
>
>Line
>
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