2. Perl cannot find the packages that many, many scripts rely on
Perl very often reports that it cannot find a certain package in a list
of directories in @INC (yes I know what that is for) that in no way
corresponds to the directory structure within !Perl. I cannot believe
that I am supposed to rearrange all the packages into directories
/home/riscos/cross/local/lib/perl5/5.8.0/riscos-aof
/home/riscos/cross/local/lib/perl5/5.8.0
/home/riscos/cross/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/riscos-aof
/home/riscos/cross/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0
/home/riscos/cross/local/lib/perl5/site_perl
It is equally hard to believe that I am supposed to edit the start of
each and every supplied script to make it change @INC at compile time;
apart from that, attempts to do it failed. Is there a way to do it
globally?
This is a known problem with my 5.8.0 port, which I do intend to fix but have not found the time to do so yet.
Please, can someone enlighten me on how to solve these problems, so that I can *conveniently* use RISC OS Perl? I probably need some pretty detailed instructions on what files to put where and what startup scripts to tweak. And of course, if someone is able and willing to write such instructions, publish them on the internet and make RISC OS Ltd add them to their next Foundation User cd.
Unless you need a 32bit version or know what you are doing, I suggest you avoid my port for the time being. I do intend to make it a bit more user friendly when it is finished.
Alex
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