Sunday, January 31, 1999 This is the Text::Soundex module with shared libraries compiled for MacPerl. Shared libraries run only on PPC and CFM68K versions, not non-CFM 68K versions. This was compiled with MPW and Codewarrior. Passed all tests. I have no 68K machine so I can't test the CFM68K version. Let me know of any problems. Best installed using cpan-mac, either with the CPAN shell, or the installme droplet. From the CPAN shell, type: cpan> install CNANDOR/Text-Soundex-2.13-bin-2-Mac.tgz -- Chris Nandor mailto:pudge@pobox.com http://pudge.net/ %PGPKey = ('B76E72AD', [1024, '0824090B CE73CA10 1FF77F13 8180B6B6']) #=================================== Text::Soundex Version 2.12 This is a perl 5 module implementing the Soundex algorithm described by Knuth. Mark Mielke suggested a complete rewrite of the code for version 2.00, Mike Stok's old code has been retired :-) Recently, Mark threw in his XS version that works approx. 7.5 times faster than the 100% perl version. Once the archive has been unpacked then the following steps are needed to build, test and install the module (to be done in the directory which contains the Makefile.PL) perl Makefile.PL make make test If the make test succeeds then the next step may need to be run as root (on a Unix-like system) or with special privileges on other systems. make install If you do not want to use the XS code (for whatever reason) do the following instead of the above: perl Makefile.PL --no-xs make make test make install If any of the tests report 'not ok' and you're running perl 5.004 or later then please contact Mark Mielke