Charles Maier wrote:
>
> My ppm has stopped working on my Win98SE Pc. I de-installed perl (5.6.0) and
> reinstalled it.. still ppm does not function. I just downloaded a ppd module
> off of activestate.. unzipped it and typed (at DOS prompt):
>
> ppm install mailtools.ppd
>
> it comes up with an error about not being able to locate a binary
> distribution for my platform. There IS a x86 directory with a
> "mailtools.tar.gz" file in it.
Chuck,
In addition to being specific to x86, the package must be built for Perl
5.6. If you look at the PPD file, you will see an 'IMPLEMENTATION'
block. Within that block, you will see an 'ARCHITECTURE' block. If the
value for ARCHITECTURE is "MSWin32-x86-multi-thread", this is a package
built for Perl 5.6. If the ARCHITECTURE is set to "MSWin32-x86-object",
the package was built for Build 522 or prior. Unfortunately, the two
are not binary-compatible.
HTH,
Ian
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