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| author | Leo Lapworth <leo@cuckoo.org> | 2011-04-03 09:20:04 +0100 |
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| committer | Father Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org> | 2011-05-18 16:31:34 -0700 |
| commit | b9f41ca854adae9c928d96cb3c1612b18866516e (patch) | |
| tree | 5c2989df27baefbddddc860810bbaeedf0b55150 /README.macosx | |
| parent | ee7da77df0be2dd56a26488d22dd3cd5cd24f2fa (diff) | |
| download | perl-b9f41ca854adae9c928d96cb3c1612b18866516e.tar.gz | |
README.macosx - clarify requirement of apple developer tools
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diff --git a/README.macosx b/README.macosx index 3fda26241f..89d18b3e6e 100644 --- a/README.macosx +++ b/README.macosx @@ -23,6 +23,11 @@ This document briefly describes Perl under Mac OS X. The latest Perl release (5.12.3 as of this writing) builds without changes under all versions of Mac OS X from 10.3 "Panther" onwards. +In order to build your own version of Perl you will need 'make' +this is part of the Apples developer tools (you only need the 'unix tools'), +usually supplied with Mac OS install DVDs. You do not need the latest +version of Xcode (which is now charged for) in order to install make. + Earlier Mac OS X releases (10.2 "Jaguar" and older) did not include a completely thread-safe libc, so threading is not fully supported. Also, earlier releases included a buggy libdb, so some of the DB_File tests |