Apple's Mac OS X update breaks Perl
Apple's latest Mac OS X security update has a knack for breaking Perl, according to Mac users from across the web.
"I've just done the update using Software update and just about everything I look at is working, except that perl seems to have gone almost AWOL," says one Mac OS X user, with a post to Apple's support forum.
"I seen it pop up occasionally in the Activity Monitor, but, when I try to run perl scripts from the command line or the cron jobs that ran flawlessly before the update, nothing happens. Period."
Two other support forum visitors say they've experienced similar problems with the popular programming language following Mac updates, and others have complained of Perl breakage on a public Perl mailing list and an independent blog.
Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The company released its Security Update 2009-001 on Thursday.
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