On Mar 11, 2007, at 12:54 AM, Joel Rees wrote:
perl 5.8.8 parallel build in /usr/local, botched it a couple of
times trying to get it to pull in expat and tie it in to apache 2,
I finally gave up on apache 2, then on expat.
Now, when I try to run certain things, I get this:
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/
local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/darwin-2level/Scalar/Util.pm line 30.
Line 30 in Scalar::Util is Carp::croak()ing about a feature only
being available in the XS version. With Scalar::Util being a core
module, I'd say something went wrong while you were building 5.8.8.
One of the things I get it with is cpan, and I find I can't update
Bundle::CPAN because of it. Cascading failures starting about half
way through, starting with an instance of the above uninitialized
string.
The above warning won't, in an of itself, cause any failures - it's
the Carp::croak() that's causing test scripts to die. There may be
modules that depend on the XS version of Scalar::Util.
I've tried deleting the .cpan in my build user's directory and
deleting all the build tree and the entire contents of /usr/local/
bin and /usr/local/lib to start over, but it senses perl 5.8.8
anyway, and takes some defaults I don't think I want it to. And the
errors get worse. Do I need to delete the entire /usr/local tree as
well?
That's absurd - what's next, nuke the site from orbit?
What "it" are you talking about that "senses" Perl 5.8.8? The scripts
you're trying to run? Something you're trying to install? Are you
certain that it's "sensing" Perl 5.8.8? How are you certain of that?
Sorry to be so vague, but if you're an IT vet, you know the drill -
troubleshooting is a methodical, step-by-step process, and you can't
rely on guesswork for any step. Step one: Which Perl are your scripts
running with #!? Which "perl" is in your path? When you start the
CPAN shell, how are you doing that? If you're using the cpan script,
what's its #! line?
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