Hi Dave -
I really don't think Perl beginners is the best place to be asking
this question. Have you considered trying something like
http://code.activestate.com/lists/perl-win32-users/ ? That seems like
a more likely place to connect with somebody who can help you.
chrs,
john.
On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 6:46 AM, Dave Horner <daveydave1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> continuing to play with the cygwin64 perl blead that I built on Aug-12th. I
> mentioned the strange infinite loop in the questioning of gpg tool; haven't
> had time to research why that happened, yet. I'm trying to get basic
> reporting facilities up, as I have yet to report a single cygwin report.
> All of my testing is failing within configure so force does not help and of
> course they don't get reported.
>
> As I mentioned before I have to be cognizant of the environment variables
> shared with my windows strawberry perl.
> This means at first I was tried all these options with PERL_YAML_BACKEND and
> PERL_JSON_BACKEND set...which didn't work. So I've also tried unsetting
> them, ensuring they were not in env/set output, and trying to install again.
>
> It appears that PERL_YAML_BACKEND defaults to YAML when no value is set.
>
> the issue it seems resides within: /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.21.3/CPAN/Meta.pm
> $backend = Parse::CPAN::Meta->yaml_backend();
> $data = eval { no strict 'refs'; &{"$backend\::Dump"}($struct) };
> if ( $@ ) {
> croak $backend->can('errstr') ? $backend->errstr : $@
> }
>
> # running Build.PL
> Could not load PERL_YAML_BACKEND 'YAML'
> at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.21.3/CPAN/Meta.pm line 613.
>
> I've tried forcing installing YAML::XS, YAML, YAML::Tiny, YAML::Old,
> JSON::XS, JSON
>
> They all give me a similar error about the backend not being there; what am
> I missing? Do I need to be bootstrapping these files manually? Shouldn't a
> basic backend support for YAML/JSON come out of the box with perl blead?
>
> I appreciate any help/guidance.
>
> Thanks,
> --dave
> https://questhub.io/realm/perl/quest/53d39f40b587a43011000143
> http://wiki.cpantesters.org/wiki/YACSmokePOE - built perl using instructions
> found here.
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