Perl's copious documentation is one of the things that keeps me using it. But
a pretty good idea where to start looking, can be like finding the proverbial
needle in a haystack.
Fortunately, we have Joshua ben Jore's perldoc-search,
which will find anything you can specify as a regular expression, and that
Perl itself can find.
Unfortunately, this can sometimes be a bit too much. I generally have several Perl
kits unpacked in my home direc…
This post is a follow-up to MacPorts openssl versus Perl. That post told of a problem with a recent MacPorts openssl upgrade, and gave a workaround.
The right thing to do, however, is to use the current openssl. That involves finding all Perl modules that use openssl and re-installing them.
To do this, I wrote a small Perl script that traversed @INC
looking for binary files. It spawned the file
command to determine whet…
This is only of interest to Mac users who link their Perl against
This morning I found that Perl code that used LWP::Protocol::https was
failing, but only when run by the test harness.
After some flailing around I managed to track this to the fact that I
had just updated MacPorts, and taken openssl from 1.0.2f_0 to 1.0.2g_0.
I still do not know the precise cause of the failure, but it was exposed
by the fact that the test harness (whether ExtUtils::MakeMaker or
Module::Build) set PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1.
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