On Friday, July 26, 2002, at 01:35 PM, Ken Williams wrote:
> > On Friday, July 26, 2002, at 10:21 AM, Geoffrey F. Green wrote: > >> On 7/26/02 1:19 PM, "Ken Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> On Friday, July 26, 2002, at 09:41 AM, Geoffrey F. Green wrote: >>> >>>> On 7/26/02 12:32 PM, "David Souza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Heard a rumbling that if you use CPAN to try and load a Pelr module >>>>> it goes out and get Perl 5.8 and then compiles it and then Perl >>>>> doesn't work..... anyone heard anything?? >>>> >>>> If you have that problem, download the latest version of CPAN.pm from >>>> CPAN and install it manually; it will work fine after that. >>> >>> Well, where "work fine" apparently means it will refuse to install >>> modules that are part of the core, even if they're available >>> separately. >> >> Hmmm. I don't recall if I experienced that, because I don't explicitly >> remember trying to do that. > > Well, it's the exact same situation you experienced before - only > instead of trying to install perl, it just quits. Does it look like this? mrsparkle ellem ~ $ sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell Password: There seems to be running another CPAN process (pid 338). Contacting... Other job not responding. Shall I overwrite the lockfile? (Y/N) [y] cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.61) ReadLine support available (try 'install Bundle::CPAN') cpan> install Bundle::CPAN CPAN: Storable loaded ok LWP not available Segmentation fault mrsparkle ellem ~ $ BTW the machine is freshly booted I had no other instance of CPAN running -- ....in the Actor's Studio with Godzilla "How do you address those that say your character is evil?" "Aaaarrrrrrrr!" "Yes, I see." (OS X) Lou Moran
