On 7/16/06, Stanton McCandlish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Martin Costabel wrote:
> >>> Stanton McCandlish wrote:
> >>>> Ironically, I already have Test::Builder::Tester installed - I think it
> >>>> is part of the stock Perl 5 distro in OS X
> >>> I don't think so. The Test perl modules that come with OSX 10.4 don't
> >>> have Builder::Tester,
> >>
> >> Are you saying I should remove the CPAN-installed Builder::Tester?
> >
> > I don't know what the long-term solution is; maybe Fink needs to update
> > all the Test modules.
>
> That sounds likely - if the newest Test::Builder::Tester available
> through Fink cannot recognize the output of the current Test::Builder
> and Test::Simple from CPAN, that's probably a problem. :-)  Just to
> confirm that I'm not insane, I just did:
>   # cpan -i Test::Builder Test::Simple
> to ensure that I really was in fact using the latest versions.
> Test::Builder was reinstalled (I had moved it to .../5.8.6/Test~/) and
> Test::Simple said it did not need to be updated.  Fink's
> Test::Builder::Tester install fails with previously posted error
> messages.  So, out-of-date CPAN files is definitely not the problem on
> my end.
>
> > But the short-term solution for you would be to
> > put the Test modules back to the version in which they came with the
> > system. It is not only Test/Builder.pm that has changed, but also
> > Test/Simple.pm and Test/More.pm (and maybe others I don't know of).
>
> Easier said than done.  I spent about 5 hours today downloading all
> 4+GB worth of XCode archives and going through every single package in
> every version of XCode, all the way back to 2002 Developer Tools,
> before it was even called XCode, and the
> /System/Library/Perl/5.8.6/Test/ files are nowhere to be found, other
> than Tutorial.pod which is of no relevance here.
>
> Where do the "stock" Apple-installed versions of Harness, Builder,
> Simple and More come from in the first place?
>
> At this point I have no idea how to remedy this situation, and can't
> compile much of anything that I need to because of the dependencies on
> the broken T::B::T.  D'oh.  If someone running 10.4.7/PPC who does not
> have this T::B::T compile problem can just send me a tarball of
> .../5.8.6/Test/ I'd be eternally grateful.
>
They weren't installed as part of any Developer Tools/XCode package,
but from the main system install (Essentials.pkg).

-- 
Alexander K. Hansen
Fink Documenter (still)


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