On 4/13/13 3:08 PM, Bill Waggoner wrote: > I have been trying to install/upgrade some perl modules using CPAN. > But it appears that fink and CPAN are working at cross purposes and, > perhaps, I am trying to do something that can't/shouldn't be done ... > > The trouble I am running up against is a dependency problem between > ExtUtils::MakeMaker and Pod::Man (podlator). The version in Fink are, > respectively, 6.62 and 2.4.2; several CPAN modules need MakeMaker at > 6.64 which requires Pod::Man (podlator module actually) at 2.5.1. > > When I try to install either in CPAN I get the circular dependency > problem. I tried a manual install which completed but didn't seem to > install in the right place. Or, at least, into a place the CPAN sees. > > Am I crazy to try to use CPAN while using fink? > > Any advice would be appreciated. > > Bill W >
Yeah, mixing packaging systems is never guaranteed to be reliable. I assume this is for the system's Perl? Fink doesn't really care so much about what you have installed via CPAN, since it just relies on the listed dependencies. You might try unsetting PERL5LIB before you do a CPAN install so that Fink-installed modules aren't visible. Or, similarly, if your manual install location isn't in the default lookup path, add that to PERL5LIB. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. Get a free account! http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.macosx.fink.user Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
