2009/8/14 Steve Bertrand <st...@ibctech.ca>:
> Philip Potter wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I'm having trouble installing stuff on CPAN. I'm using the cpan script:
>> cpan script version 1.03
>> CPAN.pm version 1.7602
>>
>> It tells me there's a new CPAN.pm available, so I type install
>> Bundle::CPAN. After a lot of text, including some requests for
>> dependencies, I get:
>>
>> Recursive dependency detected:
>> Bundle::CPAN
>> => Test::Harness
>> => A/AN/ANDYA/Test-Harness-3.17.tar.gz
>> => File::Spec
>> => S/SM/SMUELLER/PathTools-3.30.tar.gz
>> => Scalar::Util
>> => G/GB/GBARR/Scalar-List-Utils-1.21.tar.gz
>> => Test::More
>> => M/MS/MSCHWERN/Test-Simple-0.92.tar.gz
>> => Test::Harness.
>> Cannot continue.
>>
>> What do I do now? How do I update CPAN?
>
> From what I've read, this is an issue that affects CentOS/RedHat, which
> apparently ship with a faulty shell.
>
> In fact, I performed the install via the CPAN shell on FreeBSD 7.2
> successfully just now as a test ("install Bundle::CPAN").
>
> Perhaps you could try:
>
> % perl -MCPAN -e shell
> % cpan> install CPAN
> % cpan> o conf commit
>
> Be advised that even though that seemed to work ok on a test box, I
> don't know the complete ramifications.
What do those commands do? Is $ perl -MCPAN -e shell different from $ cpan?
I tried
$ perl -MCPAN -e shell
cpan> install CPAN
and it failed on a test, so I repeated it grabbing output:
$ perl -MCPAN -e shell 2>&1 | tee output.txt
cpan> install CPAN
output is here:
http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~pgp/output.txt
As you can see, it asked for Test::Harness which I supplied. I guess
it builds ok?
It then goes back to CPAN where it fails on t/30shell.t where it times
out. Apparently this is on i[206]prog[r] whatever that means.
I had a look in the pod for t/30shell.t and poked around looking at
the testcases but I'm not sure why it's failing. What do you think?
Philip
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