On May 17, 2009, at 2:23 PM, Jean-François Mertens wrote:

>
> On 17 May 2009, at 19:21, Jack Howarth wrote:
>
>> ps I ran into this when trying to build intltool40 with
>> 'fink -m install' which showed testsuite failures due to
>> the missing compression related perlmods (which can't be
>> installed due to the above construct).
> Stumbled into another problem with those compression related perlmods,
> trying to install openoffice on a 10.5 system: apparently perl586-core
> claims to provide compress-zlib-pm586 while it doesn't
> -- "no Compress/Zlib.pm found in INC" , confirmed by dpkg -L.

It seems that Apple's perl installations provide more modules than the  
fink packages do, although the fink packages are claiming to provide  
the same things.  I don't know why this is the case, but we obviously  
need a thorough audit of which perlmods the fink packages actually  
provide.

  -- Dave


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