Trouble Installing HTML::Parser on MacOS X

djantzen has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I've got 5.8.1 installed in the default locations set by Apple, but cannot get CPAN to install HTML::Parser and friends.

Logged in as root, I do the standard perl -MCPAN -e 'shell', and install HTML::Parser. I notice that it's complaining about not finding /usr/local/lib. Weird that it can't create the directories it requires since I'm root, but whatever, I create it manually. Now the error looks like this:

Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Writing Makefile for HTML::Parser
cp lib/HTML/LinkExtor.pm blib/lib/HTML/LinkExtor.pm
cp lib/HTML/Entities.pm blib/lib/HTML/Entities.pm
cp Parser.pm blib/lib/HTML/Parser.pm
cp lib/HTML/TokeParser.pm blib/lib/HTML/TokeParser.pm
cp lib/HTML/HeadParser.pm blib/lib/HTML/HeadParser.pm
cp lib/HTML/Filter.pm blib/lib/HTML/Filter.pm
cp lib/HTML/PullParser.pm blib/lib/HTML/PullParser.pm
/usr/bin/perl /System/Library/Perl/5.8.1/ExtUtils/xsubpp  -typemap /Sy
+stem/Library/Perl/5.8.1/ExtUtils/typemap -typemap typemap  Parser.xs 
+> Parser.xsc && mv Parser.xsc Parser.c
/usr/bin/perl mkhctype >hctype.h
/usr/bin/perl mkpfunc >pfunc.h
cc -c   -g -pipe -pipe -fno-common -DPERL_DARWIN -no-cpp-precomp -fno-
+strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -Os   -DVERSION=\"3.36\" -DXS_VE
+RSION=\"3.36\"  "-I/System/Library/Perl/5.8.1/darwin-thread-multi-2le
+vel/CORE"  -DMARKED_SECTION Parser.c
Running Mkbootstrap for HTML::Parser ()
chmod 644 Parser.bs
rm -f blib/arch/auto/HTML/Parser/Parser.bundle
LD_RUN_PATH="" MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.3 cc  -bundle -undefined dy
+namic_lookup -L/usr/local/lib Parser.o  -o blib/arch/auto/HTML/Parser
+/Parser.bundle      
ld: can't locate file for: -lbundle1.o
make: *** [blib/arch/auto/HTML/Parser/Parser.bundle] Error 1
  /usr/bin/make  -- NOT OK
Running make test
  Can't test without successful make
Running make install
  make had returned bad status, install seems impossible
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Any suggestions? Thanks, djantzen

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Re: Trouble Installing HTML::Parser on MacOS X by arcnon (Monk) on May 29, 2004 at 03:10 UTC
did you install it in the same location as apple? If not your problem may be that your 5.6 modules have to be recompiled for 5.8.	[reply]
Re: Trouble Installing HTML::Parser on MacOS X by Cody Pendant (Prior) on May 31, 2004 at 03:54 UTC
Did you get this fixed at all? I was hoping you did because I'm having the same problem. Even more annoyingly it's happening on the home machine but not the work machine... There is an OSX/Perl mailing list which has proved very helpful before now, but I don't have the details to hand... ($_='kkvvttuubbooppuuiiffssqqffssmmiibbddllffss') =~y~b-v~a-z~s; print	[reply]
Re: Trouble Installing HTML::Parser on MacOS X by Cody Pendant (Prior) on Jun 02, 2004 at 01:45 UTC
OK I found the mailing list and almost instantly got help. http://www.mail-archive.com/macosx@perl.org/msg05736.html has the fix, apparently, I haven't been able to test yet. Short answer, the version of cc is wrong, and changing `ld='MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.3 cc'` [download] to `ld='env MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.3 cc'` [download] in /System/Library/Perl/5.8.1/darwin-thread-multi-2level/Config.pm is the fix, or possibly changing it in the Makefile? Anyway, HTH. You should be able to find sign-up instructions for the list via that link. ($_='kkvvttuubbooppuuiiffssqqffssmmiibbddllffss') =~y~b-v~a-z~s; print	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Trouble Installing HTML::Parser on MacOS X by djantzen (Priest) on Oct 06, 2004 at 18:47 UTC
Jeez, did I take long enough to respond? :) The fix suggested on that list didn't help even a little bit. But I found last night when trying to compile nmap that my C compiler was unable to create an executable. Given that my previous attempts to compile modules utilizing C components failed when trying to find the output files from the C compilation, I think the problem was in general an inability to create object files. In any case, I upgraded my version of Xcode Tools to 1.5 and now everything is working perfectly. "The dead do not recognize context" -- Kai, Lexx	[reply]


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