[X-Unix] curl install problem

[Phil Dobbin]

On 14/11/2004 @ 01:52 GMT, Juan Manuel Palacios, jmpalaciosp at eml.cc, wrote:

>On Nov 14, 2004, at 8:46 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to update curl from Jag's 7.7.2 to 7.10.7 in order to 
>> install WWW::Curl but I'm puzzled by the make install errors I'm 
>> getting:
>
>   DarwinPorts currently offers curl 7.12.2, but I'm not too sure how 
>it 
>compiles on Jaguar (apparently there are very few DP users with 
>Jaguar). You can ask in the dp mailing list, have a look at 
>http://darwinports.opendarwin.org for more info. However,...

Hi, Juan.

As far as I can tell 7.10.7 is the newest version of curl that will compile on Jag (I did check out DP).

[snip error codes]

>   This is a *really* weird choice for a man directory, even more if 
>you 
>consider this is a "third party" installation. That dir should be 
>either /usr/local/man or /usr/local/share/man, unless you specified 
>something else in the "configure" script

That's made me realise what I've done. I used the --prefix=/usr/bin on the configure script in an effort to overwrite the system curl which, after a quick look in the directory, is the reason for the errors.

If I leave configure to install in its default location of /usr/local it *should* compile OK. I'll then flag the Perl Makefile to /usr/local when installing WWW::Curl

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Thanks for your help,

Regards,

    Phil (please cc me if possible: I'm on digest).