Perlbrew failed to install Perl on Mac with Sierra

[pig-raffles]

Apologies if this is not the place to report this but I have checked elsewhere and not found an obvious solution to my problem

I am attempting to install the latest stable version (with threads) of Perl onto my Mac with macOS Sierra

I have used the following commands:

perlbrew install perl-5.24.1 --thread --switch perlbrew install stable --thread --switch perlbrew install stable

All of these commands end in failure with the message:

"Installation process failed. To spot any issues, check /Users/alan/perl5/perlbrew/build.perl-5.24.1.log If some perl tests failed and you still want to install this distribution anyway, do: (cd /Users/alan/perl5/perlbrew/build/perl-5.24.1; make install)"

I have also tried: perlbrew --notest install 5.24.1

Again ending in failure.

Perlbrew upgrade-perl successfully upgraded the system Perl to 5.16.3 but I cannot install another version

Is this a known issue with Perlbrew and Sierra? Does anyone have any suggestions?

Many thanks

Alan

[gerrygrieve]

I have a similar problem w Mac OSX 10.11.6 aka El Capitan

gerry

[gerrygrieve]

i deleted perlbrew & re-installed

perlbrew install perl-5.25.10

.... lo and behold ... perl-5.25.10 is successfully installed.

I have no idea why 2nd attempt worked.

[sauljaffe]

I'm having a similar issue on El Capitan. I'm trying to install perlbrew for the first time since the Apple version is broken. Here is what I get:

\curl -L https://install.perlbrew.pl | bash % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 170 100 170 0 0 160 0 0:00:01 0:00:01 --:--:-- 160 100 1247 100 1247 0 0 707 0 0:00:01 0:00:01 --:--:-- 2210

## Download the latest perlbrew

## Installing perlbrew Can't locate Config.pm: Permission denied at perlbrew.ZQUIVq line 3. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at perlbrew.ZQUIVq line 3.

[gerrygrieve]

I'm now running MacOS 10.12 (Sierra) but

my system's perl has Config.pm in the directory... /System/Library/Perl/5.18/darwin-thread-multi-2level/Config.pm ElCapitan may have a different directory... Check your '@INC' path

perl -e ' print join "\n", @INC;'

[goudsmit]

The original problem (with 5.24.1) seems to be this perl issue (not perlbrew specific).

Fixed in blead, and will be backported. Work-around would be using blead, or an older version.