i did not use CPAN.pm to install software on this particular machine. my mod_perl builds are always by hand. i did understand exactly why this happened. i should have made that more clear in my first e-mail. i made the patch that i did, so i would not have the same problem with any other software. Stas Bekman wrote: > On Sat, 25 Aug 101 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > [snip] > > > He's right, and this is exactly what's happened in mod_perl. > > It's a bug *caused* by recent changes in LWP, and not a bug in LWP, per se. > > >From Gisle Aas' directory in CPAN, you can see: > > > > 04/10/01 06:15PM 157,267 libwww-perl-5.53.tar.gz > > 05/05/01 08:57AM 172,925 libwww-perl-5.53_94.tar.gz > > 08/06/01 07:46PM 174,613 libwww-perl-5.53_95.tar.gz > > > > >From the "official" website, http://www.linpro.no/lwp, he says the > > lastest version is 5.53 from 4/10/01. However, if you use the CPAN module, > > you will pickup the 5.53_95 version instead. This is the version (and > > maybe 5.53_94 as well, but I haven't checked) that makes mod_perl break. > > Or maybe some interim versions of the CPAN module are downloading > > this development version of the module, I'm not sure. > > What version of CPAN.pm are you using? CPAN.pm never picks distros with > '_' in the version part. I've just performed checking I've got > 5.53.tar.gz. > > -- ___cliff [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.genwax.com/
