DB_File is not installed?
Hi All. I've released a module, Dist::Surveyor v0.007, and seeing reports from CPAN testers that DB_File doesn't exists. DB_File is not listed in the deps, because, well, it is core. http://www.cpantesters.org/distro/D/Dist-Surveyor.html#Dist-Surveyor-0.007 Interestingly, most of the fails come from Solaris. but a few from Linux too. Any idea why the module is missing? Shmuel.
Re: DB_File is not installed?
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Shmuel Fomberg shmuelfomb...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All. I've released a module, Dist::Surveyor v0.007, and seeing reports from CPAN testers that DB_File doesn't exists. DB_File is not listed in the deps, because, well, it is core. http://www.cpantesters.org/distro/D/Dist-Surveyor.html#Dist-Surveyor-0.007 Interestingly, most of the fails come from Solaris. but a few from Linux too. Any idea why the module is missing? The *DB_File modules aren't build when their library (in this case, libdb aka Berkeley DB) isn't present on the system. Only SDBM_File is guaranteed to be present because it's bundled with perl. I think all of them are prime targets for dual-living, which might alleviate some of these issues (though external dependencies are always tricky). Leon
Re: DB_File is not installed?
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 01:49:29PM +0100, Leon Timmermans wrote: On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Shmuel Fomberg shmuelfomb...@gmail.com wrote: Interestingly, most of the fails come from Solaris. but a few from Linux too. Any idea why the module is missing? The *DB_File modules aren't build when their library (in this case, libdb aka Berkeley DB) isn't present on the system. Only SDBM_File is guaranteed to be present because it's bundled with perl. I think all of them are prime targets for dual-living, which might alleviate some of these issues (though external dependencies are always tricky). DB_File is dual life already (upstream CPAN) Certainly the other 3 (not SDBM_File) are obvious victims to dual life. SDBM_File still has a parallel makefile issue that it would be nice to nail first. Someone previously seemed interested in having this happen, but inexplicably vanished when we said go for it! Nicholas Clark
Re: DB_File is not installed?
On 22/11/2012 12:43, Shmuel Fomberg wrote: I've released a module, Dist::Surveyor v0.007, and seeing reports from CPAN testers that DB_File doesn't exists. DB_File is not listed in the deps, because, well, it is core. http://www.cpantesters.org/distro/D/Dist-Surveyor.html#Dist-Surveyor-0.007 Interestingly, most of the fails come from Solaris. but a few from Linux too. Any idea why the module is missing? It's in core, but only gets built if the necessary libraries and headers are present. -- David Cantrell | Bourgeois reactionary pig People from my sort of background needed grammar schools to compete with children from privileged homes like ... Tony Benn -- Margaret Thatcher
