Re: problems with WWW::Curl, perl 5.8.7, Mac Mini, 10.4.2

On Jul 21, 2005, at 11:06 PM, Joel Rees wrote:

> I installed 5.8.7 on a Mac Mini running 10.4.2 under /usr/local, 
> executables in /usr/local/bin, used .bash_profile to add 
> /usr/local/bin to the front of my path (bleaugh).
> (Hesitated about installing gpg, but trying to build it gave me a huge 
> bunch of integer precision errors with the sign bit so I decided to 
> just move ahead. Does cpan use openssl if it doesn't find gpg? Or does 
> it just not bother to check the checksums/signatures?)
> sudid cpan, with the .cpan file under /usr/local/share/perl. (Is that 
> reasonable?)
> Tried to install WWW:Curl from the cpan prompt. At the make test 
> stage, I get about twenty occurences of
>     Bareword "CURLOPT_MUTE" not allowed while "strict subs"
It looks like WWW::Curl isn't happy under 5.8.7.  That's a compile-time 
error, so it's never even getting off the ground.
Definitely not related to CPAN, or Mac Mini, or 10.4.2.

Best bet is to report this to the author of WWW::Curl.

 -Ken