I'd really love to see some logs of this problem. I am on MacOSX and don't
have problems of this magnitude when installing Catalyst. However I don't use
the built in system Perl, I use Perlbrew + local::lib + cpanm as my primary
build toolchain. If I use a modern Perl (5.12+) the only things that give me
trouble is the bit of extra work it takes to install DBD::mysql (need to make
sure you set the ENV var to point to the mysql_config utility if that is not in
$PATH).
I know Catalyst does have quite a few dependencies, but I round tripped
installing Catalyst and Task::Catalyst many times as part of the testing I did
prior to the latest release, so I know that it can work (abet a bit time
consuming to run all the tests for all the dependencies). If you follow the
generally promoted process:
1) Setup a local Perl with perlbrew and a modern Perl.
2) Create and activate a local::lib where you dependencies will go (in other
words never install stuff into the perlbrew managed Perl)
3) use cpanm
You should have little trouble. Again, I'd love to see the logs. I know the
temptation to use some sort of port system here is quite high, but my
experience is that this is not a great path for developers and the port/deb/rpm
etc. almost always get something wrong that causes you pain in the end.
Just my experience. Hope this helps.
John
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>To: The elegant MVC web framework <[email protected]>
>Sent: Thursday, September 8, 2011 4:30 PM
>Subject: Re: [Catalyst] Can the latest Catalyst version from CPAN be installed
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>If you are on OS X, you can use MacPorts to install Catalyst. I had tried
>using CPAN, but got seemingly circular errors as well.
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>On Sep 8, 2011, at 1:05 PM, Octavian Rasnita wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> I have tried to install Catalyst with CPAN, but it gave an error telling
>> that it has a missing dependency in Plack::Test::ExternalServer.
>>
>> That module couldn't install because of a test error (something like a
>> missing empty port or something like that)
>>
>> So I force installed Plack::Test::ExternalServer, but after this step, when
>> I tried to install again Catalyst, it gave more errors:
>>
>> Failed 107/141 test programs. 15/385 subtests failed.
>>
>> Octavian
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