[GNC] Finance::Quote on a Mac with a foreign perl

john jralls at ceridwen.us
Thu Apr 25 22:15:52 EDT 2024


Are there any Mac users who have Homebrew installed and know what @INC is?

At least two users with the first problem but without knowing the second have gotten themselves cross-threaded trying to install Finance::Quote because Homebrew' screws up their perl installation so that cpan ignores the installed modules and since Homebrew doesn't (at least without help) provide SSLeay, Net::HTTPS, and IO::Sockets::SSL and macOS doesn't put OpenSSL's headers in /usr/include they have to perform all sorts of unnatural acts to get gnc-fq-update to work.

We need some simple instructions for the wiki for how to work around the problem so that gnc-fq-update uses the system perl (that's after all the only one the app bundle can see, it doesn't read the user's shell environment) and gets the dependencies from /System/Library/Perl instead of trying to build them.

Regards,
John Ralls



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