CPAN failure in 5.16.1 (+ solution)

2012-09-10 Thread John Delacour
It seems there have been no postings to the list for over a year, but here goes anyway. Last night I installed Perl 5.16.1 in /usr/local/ and immediately encountered problems when I tried to install and update modules using CPAN. The error is copied below. I could see no solution

Re: Can't Update CPAN, Can't Install DBD::mysql

2011-09-29 Thread Adrian Hosey
On Sep 28, 2011, at 1:41 PM, Lola Lee Beno wrote: Looks like I need to install make. This means, I need to get XCode so I can install make, right? Yes, but - you should also read this http://deflatermouse.livejournal.com/149721.html - alh

Can't Update CPAN, Can't Install DBD::mysql

2011-09-28 Thread Lola Lee Beno
in /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.12/darwin-thread-multi-2level/auto/DBI/ Writing Makefile for DBD::mysql Can't exec /usr/bin/make: No such file or directory at /System/Library/Perl/5.12/CPAN/Distribution.pm line 2026. CAPTTOFU/DBD-mysql-4.020.tar.gz /usr/bin/make -- NOT OK Running make test Can't

Re: Can't Update CPAN, Can't Install DBD::mysql

2011-09-28 Thread John Delacour
At 13:41 -0400 28/9/11, Lola Lee Beno wrote: ...Can't exec /usr/bin/make: No such file or directory at Looks like I need to install make. This means, I need to get XCode so I can install make, right? Absolutely! Isn't it on your Mac OS X install disks? JD

Re: Can't Update CPAN, Can't Install DBD::mysql

2011-09-28 Thread Bruce Van Allen
On 2011-09-28, Lola Lee Beno wrote: Looks like I need to install make. This means, I need to get XCode so I can install make, right? Other than the huge download of a bunch of XCode stuff you might never use, that's probably the best way to install make. - Bruce

Re: Can't Update CPAN, Can't Install DBD::mysql

2011-09-28 Thread Elizabeth Mattijsen
5.012003 on darwin-thread-multi-2level) installed in /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.12/darwin-thread-multi-2level/auto/DBI/ Writing Makefile for DBD::mysql Can't exec /usr/bin/make: No such file or directory at /System/Library/Perl/5.12/CPAN/Distribution.pm line 2026. CAPTTOFU/DBD-mysql-4.020

Re: Can't Update CPAN, Can't Install DBD::mysql

2011-09-28 Thread Lola Lee Beno
That's what I was afraid of. Apparently a previous install of make got blown away. In the process of downloading XCode from App Store (uh) . . . On 9/28/11 3:48 PM, Bruce Van Allen wrote: On 2011-09-28, Lola Lee Beno wrote: Looks like I need to install make. This means, I need to get

Re: Can't Update CPAN, Can't Install DBD::mysql

2011-09-28 Thread Charlie Garrison
Good morning, On 28/09/11 at 3:59 PM -0400, Lola Lee Beno l...@his.com wrote: That's what I was afraid of. Apparently a previous install of make got blown away. In the process of downloading XCode from App Store (uh) . . . I had to install Xcode twice (not download, just install

Re: Problems Uprrading CPAN

2011-03-19 Thread Lola Lee Beno
On 3/18/11 4:24 PM, Lola Lee Beno wrote: On 3/18/11 4:19 PM, Lola Lee Beno wrote: I recently had to reinstall 10.6.6. I need to reinstall modules, so I decided to update CPAN. But it seems there are serious issues. Here's what I saw at the tail-end of the failed upgrade: Got this figured

Problems Uprrading CPAN

2011-03-18 Thread Lola Lee Beno
I recently had to reinstall 10.6.6. I need to reinstall modules, so I decided to update CPAN. But it seems there are serious issues. Here's what I saw at the tail-end of the failed upgrade: Running Build install Make had returned bad status, install seems impossible Could not read '/Users

Re: Problems Uprrading CPAN

2011-03-18 Thread Lola Lee Beno
On 3/18/11 4:19 PM, Lola Lee Beno wrote: I recently had to reinstall 10.6.6. I need to reinstall modules, so I decided to update CPAN. But it seems there are serious issues. Here's what I saw at the tail-end of the failed upgrade: Running Build install Make had returned bad status, install

cpan installation failing on 10.5.7

2009-07-11 Thread Noah Garrett Wallach
Hi there, I am not sure why but the cpan install is failing on my osx 10.5.7 machine. Looks like force is an option is that the recommended way to go? Command: sudo perl -MCPAN -e 'install CPAN' Any clues how to move forward: --- snip output /System/Library/Frameworks

Re: cpan installation failing on 10.5.7

2009-07-11 Thread Kenny Gatdula
On Jul 10, 2009, at 1:02 PM, Noah Garrett Wallach wrote: Hi there, I am not sure why but the cpan install is failing on my osx 10.5.7 machine. Looks like force is an option is that the recommended way to go? Hi, That's what I've done in the past. It seems Mac::Carbon has a failing

Re: cpan installation failing on 10.5.7

2009-07-11 Thread Andrew Hampe
On Jul 10, 2009, at 10:02 AM, Noah Garrett Wallach wrote: Hi there, I am not sure why but the cpan install is failing on my osx 10.5.7 machine. Looks like force is an option is that the recommended way to go? Command: sudo perl -MCPAN -e 'install CPAN' Since it appears

cpan installation failing on 10.5.7

2009-07-10 Thread Admin
Hi there, Sending again since I was not sure the first post made it. I am not sure why but the cpan install is failing on my osx 10.5.7 machine. Looks like force is an option is that the recommended way to go? Command: sudo perl -MCPAN -e 'install CPAN' Any clues how to move forward

cannot install cpan modules

2008-09-11 Thread Bianca Shibuya
Hi there,I saw many emails with the same problem, cannot install cpan modules. But no solution worked for me.I use perl 5.8.8 already installed on Mac OS Leopard 10.5. I tried this:sudo perl -MCPAN -e 'install Bundle::CPAN'Part of the error message is:  CPAN.pm: Going to build P/PM/PMQS

Res: cannot install cpan modules

2008-09-11 Thread Bianca Shibuya
: macosx@perl.org Enviadas: Quinta-feira, 11 de Setembro de 2008 16:53:58 Assunto: cannot install cpan modules Hi there, I saw many emails with the same problem, cannot install cpan modules. But no solution worked for me. I use perl 5.8.8 already installed on Mac OS Leopard 10.5. I tried

Re: How do you make a bundle from CPAN?

2008-03-20 Thread Michael Barto
Actually, I have found out that when you configure CPAN, you can define a different "PREFIX" to a private library and it will not go into the main Perl library you are running. The book "Object Oriented Perl" by Damian Conway mentioned this trick. Thank you for taking t

Re: CPAN modules on Leopard

2008-02-11 Thread Timothy Bailey
Just to post a resolution... I manually downloaded the Class::MethodMaker module from CPAN, and manually installed it. Oddly enough, then everything worked fine. So, I guess the moral of the story is... if the CPAN interface doesn't install things correctly, try doing it manually; that may

Re: CPAN modules on Leopard

2008-02-06 Thread Timothy Bailey
At 8:34 AM -0800 2/5/08, John Baldwin wrote: That's very strange. I'm running on a Macbook. I just ran the make and test on Class::MethodMaker within cpan and all tests passed (2 subtests skipped). I'd try cleaning out your CPAN directory to see if that helps. I assume that by my CPAN

Re: CPAN modules on Leopard

2008-02-05 Thread Timothy Bailey
installing that as well, but it complains that it wasn't in the path either. (Seems somewhat recursive...) After forcing the install, I still get the same error (MethodMaker not in path) when running my test program or trying to install ProgressBar. cpan[1] install Class::MethodMaker

Re: CPAN modules on Leopard

2008-02-05 Thread John Baldwin
That's very strange. I'm running on a Macbook. I just ran the make and test on Class::MethodMaker within cpan and all tests passed (2 subtests skipped). I'd try cleaning out your CPAN directory to see if that helps. John On Monday Feb 4, 2008 7:06 PM, at 7:06 PM, Timothy Bailey wrote

CPAN modules on Leopard

2008-02-03 Thread Timothy Bailey
I've just bought a new Mac with Leopard preinstalled, and am getting it set up, including my Perl programs. (I've actually skipped Tiger entirely; the old computer is on Panther.) They depend on a number of CPAN modules, and I am having trouble getting the modules installed. I've installed

Re: CPAN modules on Leopard

2008-02-03 Thread John Baldwin
wrote: I've just bought a new Mac with Leopard preinstalled, and am getting it set up, including my Perl programs. (I've actually skipped Tiger entirely; the old computer is on Panther.) They depend on a number of CPAN modules, and I am having trouble getting the modules installed. I've

Install Bundle::CPAN hanging on a test

2007-09-26 Thread Dennis Putnam
I am trying to install the latest version of CPAN on one of my Macs (10.4.10) and it hangs trying to install one part. Here is the output: CPAN.pm: Going to build A/AN/ANDK/CPAN-1.92.tar.gz Importing PAUSE public key into your GnuPG keychain... gpg: WARNING: unsafe ownership

Re: Can't locate object method expand via package CPAN::Shell

2007-08-13 Thread Jeremiah Foster
so that humans know it is a perl script. I started debugging your script thinking it was shell. use CPAN::Shell; # install my favorite programs if necessary: for $mod (qw(Net::FTP MD5 Data::Dumper)){ my $obj = CPAN::Shell-expand('Module',$mod); $obj-install; } Since you now use use

Re: Can't locate object method expand via package CPAN::Shell

2007-08-13 Thread jonasbn
Hola, Please note that the package CPAN::Shell lives in CPAN.pm, so the use statement should read: use CPAN; Since the use statement reflect the filesystem (as described in the @INC explanation below). jonasbn -- AIM: BjonasN Gtalk: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 62401545 MSN: [EMAIL

Re: install Bundle::CPAN failing

2007-08-12 Thread kurtz le pirate
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Noah) wrote: newbie to OSX perl but installing Bundle::CPAN is failing a lot of modules install successfully except when it reaches Mac::Files (I think?) the test fails. what is the best course of action here? ... Warning: Prerequisite

Can't locate object method expand via package CPAN::Shell

2007-08-12 Thread Noah
Hi, the CPAN::Shell perl module is installed but when called in a script an error message advises installing it. Clues please? Macintosh-2:~ root# cat ./update.no.version.sh #!/sw/bin/perl # install my favorite programs if necessary: for $mod (qw(Net::FTP MD5 Data::Dumper)){ my $obj

Re: Can't locate object method expand via package CPAN::Shell

2007-08-12 Thread jonasbn
Hi Noah, You have to load the modules you intend to use prior to calling them using the use statement use CPAN::Shell; and so forth. If you look at the error message perhaps you forgot to load CPAN::Shell It gives you a hint. Check also: % perldoc -f use

Re: Can't locate object method expand via package CPAN::Shell

2007-08-12 Thread jonasbn
Hi Noah, My fault, CPAN::Shell is defined in CPAN So you have to write use CPAN; jonasbn -- AIM: BjonasN Gtalk: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 62401545 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 12/08/2007, at 20.33, Noah wrote: thanks jonasbn, but the module is still not located. what else am I doing

Re: Can't locate object method expand via package CPAN::Shell

2007-08-12 Thread Noah
thanks jonasbn, but the module is still not located. what else am I doing wrong? Macintosh-2:~ root# cat ./update.no.version.sh #!/sw/bin/perl use CPAN::Shell; # install my favorite programs if necessary: for $mod (qw(Net::FTP MD5 Data::Dumper)){ my $obj = CPAN::Shell-expand('Module

install Bundle::CPAN failing

2007-08-11 Thread Noah
newbie to OSX perl but installing Bundle::CPAN is failing a lot of modules install successfully except when it reaches Mac::Files (I think?) the test fails. what is the best course of action here? A complete installation log may be downloaded from: http://www.enabled.com/~noah/perl-macosx

newbie: install Bundle::CPAN failing

2007-08-10 Thread Noah
newbie to OSX perl but installing Bundle::CPAN is failing a lot of modules install successfully except when it reaches Mac::Files (I think?) the test fails. what is the best course of action here? A complete installation log may be downloaded from: http://www.enabled.com/~noah/perl-macosx

Re: Problems using CPAN : part 1 - installing DBD::mysql

2007-01-31 Thread Jan Erik Moström
Reply to Sherm Pendley [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07-01-30 14:54: Where args are the options that tell the build script where to find the MySQL header (.h) files, what database, user name, and password to use for the self-tests, and so forth. Run perl Makefile.PL --help for a brief list of options, or

Problems using CPAN : part 1 - installing DBD::mysql

2007-01-30 Thread Jan Erik Moström
I've never used CPAN on my Mac before and hardly at all on other machines ... in other words newbie warning. Anyway, I want to use MySQL from Perl so I installed DBI, no problems. Then I tried to install DBD::mysql but it fails. I get the following error message

Re: Problems using CPAN : part 1 - installing DBD::mysql

2007-01-30 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Jan 30, 2007, at 8:26 AM, Jan Erik Moström wrote: Anyway, I want to use MySQL from Perl so I installed DBI, no problems. Then I tried to install DBD::mysql but it fails. Yep. The CPAN shell, as nice as it is in most respects, fails whenever a module needs arguments passed to Makefile.PL

cpan not not working because of unsafe ownership on configuration file gpg

2006-06-16 Thread Marek Stepanek
Hello all, I am unable to help myself out of this problem. My module cpan is always complaining, when I issue an install command with errors like follows: *** gpg: WARNING: unsafe ownership on configuration file `/Users/mareklaptop/.gnupg/gpg.conf' gpg: WARNING: unsafe ownership

Re: cpan not not working because of unsafe ownership on configuration file gpg

2006-06-15 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Jun 15, 2006, at 8:43 AM, Marek Stepanek wrote: I am very grateful for this help. Impossible for me as a self- learner to find this information. The only means for configuration of CPAN I found in cpan itself: cpan o conf help are there other resources? It's not your fault - The CPAN

Re: cpan not not working because of unsafe ownership on configuration file gpg

2006-06-14 Thread Marek Stepanek
no longer have to run the CPAN shell itself with sudo. That, in turn, means that *only* the install step will be run as root; the download, build, and test steps will be run as your normal user login. The second option is more work, but it reduces the amount of stuff that's running as root

Re: cpan not not working because of unsafe ownership on configuration file gpg

2006-06-14 Thread Sherm Pendley
instead of just make for that step, so that you no longer have to run the CPAN shell itself with sudo. That, in turn, means that *only* the install step will be run as root; the download, build, and test steps will be run as your normal user login. The second option is more work, but it reduces

cpan not not working because of unsafe ownership on configuration file gpg

2006-06-13 Thread Marek Stepanek
Hello all, I am unable to help myself out of this problem. My module cpan is always complaining, when I issue an install command with errors like follows: *** gpg: WARNING: unsafe ownership on configuration file `/Users/mareklaptop/.gnupg/gpg.conf' gpg: WARNING: unsafe ownership

Re: cpan not not working because of unsafe ownership on configuration file gpg

2006-06-13 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Jun 13, 2006, at 3:49 PM, Marek Stepanek wrote: I am unable to help myself out of this problem. My module cpan is always complaining, when I issue an install command with errors like follows: *** gpg: WARNING: unsafe ownership on configuration file `/Users/mareklaptop/.gnupg/gpg.conf

Re: cpan not not working because of unsafe ownership on configuration file gpg

2006-06-13 Thread Marek Stepanek
. A better option is to install and use the latest CPAN.pm module, which allows you to supply an alternative to the final make install command. You can configure it to use sudo make instead of just make for that step, so that you no longer have to run the CPAN shell itself with sudo

Re: cpan not not working because of unsafe ownership on configuration file gpg

2006-06-13 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Jun 13, 2006, at 6:11 PM, Marek Stepanek wrote: ps: but one thing is worrying me: I am unable now, to change back to the folder .gnupg ... [markslap:~] mareklap% sudo cd .gnupg/ sudo: cd: command not found there is probably something fundamental, which I do not understand about root

cpan: errors installing Net::SFTP

2006-03-29 Thread Steve Axthelm
Trying to get Net::SFTP installed in the standard Apple perl distribution (5.8.6) on OS 10.4.5. Seems to fail with (at least) Math::GMP. Trying to install Math::GMP on its own fails as well. What I think are the relevant cpan messages below. Any tips would greatly appreciated. TIA, -Steve

Recurrence of old CPAN problem after update

2006-02-05 Thread John Delacour
After upgrading Perl to 5.8.8 including the new CPAN, I am experiencing a problem I have not seen for a long time: cpan r CPAN: Storable loaded ok Going to read /Users/jd/.cpan/Metadata Database was generated on Fri, 03 Feb 2006 02:17:31 GMT CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok Fetching with LWP

Re: CPAN modules ...

2006-01-01 Thread Ken Williams
On Dec 31, 2005, at 7:43 PM, John Delacour wrote: At 6:49 pm -0500 31/12/05, Chris Devers wrote: On Sat, 31 Dec 2005, John Delacour wrote: print `/usr/bin/./printenv` ^^ Why the '/./' here? Isn't `/usr/bin/printenv` equivalent, clearer, and simpler? Sure, but I

Re: CPAN modules ...

2006-01-01 Thread Vic Norton
This has been an interesting discussion but, unfortunately, my first question about getting CPANPLUS to work is nowhere near resolved. I'll have to do a bit more research in that area. As for the second question about setting up my BBEdit environment, Doug McNutt's solution of putting everything

Re: CPAN modules ...

2005-12-31 Thread John Delacour
At 3:17 am + 31/12/05, John Delacour wrote: At 5:15 pm -0500 30/12/05, Vic Norton wrote: How can I make BBEdit's %ENV more like the system %ENV? Turn BBEdit into Terminal?... Try this: #!/usr/bin/perl print `/usr/bin/./printenv` JD

Re: CPAN modules ...

2005-12-31 Thread Chris Devers
On Sat, 31 Dec 2005, John Delacour wrote: Try this: #!/usr/bin/perl print `/usr/bin/./printenv` ^^ ^^ Why the '/./' here? Isn't `/usr/bin/printenv` equivalent, clearer, and simpler? -- Chris Devers DO NOT LEAVE IT IS NOT REAL

Re: CPAN modules ...

2005-12-31 Thread John Delacour
At 6:49 pm -0500 31/12/05, Chris Devers wrote: On Sat, 31 Dec 2005, John Delacour wrote: print `/usr/bin/./printenv` ^^ Why the '/./' here? Isn't `/usr/bin/printenv` equivalent, clearer, and simpler? Sure, but I didn't get that far. printenv works in tcsh without the

Re: CPAN modules not included with OS X

2005-12-30 Thread Joseph Alotta
On Dec 29, 2005, at 8:06 PM, Joel Rees wrote: Maybe it would help to tell you it ain't that simple? To mention openssl again, it can be installed in a variety of places, and it depends in part on where other things you may have installed might have wanted to put the packages they depend

Re: CPAN modules not included with OS X

2005-12-30 Thread Ken Williams
On Dec 29, 2005, at 7:03 PM, James Reynolds wrote: Grumble. That is exactly what I wanted to know! Thanks! Does CPAN install C libraries to /usr/local/lib or somewhere else? I could search for all new files right after a CPAN install. Anything that gets installed during 'make install

Re: CPAN modules ...

2005-12-30 Thread Vic Norton
://ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/G/GA/GAAS/CHECKSUMS' failed: Command failed: [...] This hand installation usually works, but it would be very convenient if I could make CPANPLUS ar CPAN work. Any suggestions? Choose a less busy mirror? And/or check that passive-mode FTP is enabled

Re: CPAN modules not included with OS X

2005-12-30 Thread Joel Rees
On 2005.12.31, at 02:01 AM, Joseph Alotta wrote: On Dec 29, 2005, at 8:06 PM, Joel Rees wrote: Maybe it would help to tell you it ain't that simple? To mention openssl again, it can be installed in a variety of places, and it depends in part on where other things you may have installed

Re: CPAN modules ...

2005-12-30 Thread Doug McNutt
At 17:15 -0500 12/30/05, Vic Norton wrote: A second question. When I run for (sort keys %ENV) { printf %25s = %s\n, $_, $ENV{$_}; } from BBEdit, I see a small subset of the %ENV that comes from running the script in Terminal. How can I make BBEdit's %ENV more like the system %ENV? I'm

Re: CPAN modules ...

2005-12-30 Thread John Delacour
At 5:15 pm -0500 30/12/05, Vic Norton wrote: A second question. When I run for (sort keys %ENV) { printf %25s = %s\n, $_, $ENV{$_}; } from BBEdit, I see a small subset of the %ENV that comes from running the script in Terminal. How can I make BBEdit's %ENV more like the system %ENV?

CPAN modules not included with OS X

2005-12-29 Thread James Reynolds
Does anyone know why Apple chooses or not chooses to include modules? I really dislike installing them. And more and more I find I need to. So how would I go about pressuring Apple to include more. -- Thanks, James Reynolds University of Utah Student Computing Labs [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CPAN modules not included with OS X

2005-12-29 Thread Chris Devers
On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, James Reynolds wrote: Does anyone know why Apple chooses or not chooses to include modules? I really dislike installing them. And more and more I find I need to. So how would I go about pressuring Apple to include more. No vendor includes a full CPAN library

Re: CPAN modules not included with OS X

2005-12-29 Thread James Reynolds
On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, James Reynolds wrote: Does anyone know why Apple chooses or not chooses to include modules? I really dislike installing them. And more and more I find I need to. So how would I go about pressuring Apple to include more. No vendor includes a full CPAN library

Re: CPAN modules not included with OS X

2005-12-29 Thread Adrian Hosey
what problems I could be causing? How about running CPAN on a sandbox machine and rsync'ing /Library/Perl with the servers? -- Please Do Not Throw Sausage Pizza Away

RE: CPAN modules not included with OS X

2005-12-29 Thread Jan Dubois
. No vendor includes a full CPAN library with the stock Perl. Linux, Solaris, etc, they're all doing the same thing. If you install your own copy of Perl, it too will only have a partial standard core fraction of CPAN. Get used to CPAN. You aren't going to find a vendor that provides a full CPAN

Re: CPAN modules not included with OS X

2005-12-29 Thread Joel Rees
Get used to CPAN. You aren't going to find a vendor that provides a full CPAN install -- new ones appear daily, so keeping up is impossible anyway. Hm. I really do not want to install the Dev Tools on my Mac OS X Server boxes. Why not? I'm not suggesting you install the dev tools

Re: CPAN modules not included with OS X

2005-12-29 Thread Danny Hembree
Many modules link to C libraries that must be installed as well. Simply copying the Perl directory over won't get everything that is needed. On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 13:05, James Reynolds wrote: Does anyone know why Apple chooses or not chooses to include modules? I really dislike installing

Re: CPAN modules not included with OS X

2005-12-29 Thread James Reynolds
Grumble. That is exactly what I wanted to know! Thanks! Does CPAN install C libraries to /usr/local/lib or somewhere else? I could search for all new files right after a CPAN install. James At 4:58 PM -0800 12/29/05, Danny Hembree wrote: Many modules link to C libraries that must

Re: CPAN modules not included with OS X

2005-12-29 Thread Ed Mansky
Grumble. That is exactly what I wanted to know! Thanks! Does CPAN install C libraries to /usr/local/lib or somewhere else? I could search for all new files right after a CPAN install. James Another point to remember is that some CPAN modules that depend upon C libraries already being

Re: CPAN modules ...

2005-12-29 Thread Vic Norton
Speaking of CPAN, I've never had much luck using 'cpan' to install Perl modules. Most of my stuff is on an iMac G3. Now I've got a new iMac G5. I've installed CPANPLUS on my G5, but that hasn't worked so far. Perhaps this has something to do with sudo. I do not and will not operate as root. I

Re: CPAN modules ...

2005-12-29 Thread Joel Rees
[CP_ERROR] [Mon Dec 26 14:07:55 2005] Fetching of 'ftp://ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/G/GA/GAAS/CHECKSUMS' failed: Command failed: [...] This hand installation usually works, but it would be very convenient if I could make CPANPLUS ar CPAN work. Any suggestions? Choose

Re: CPAN modules not included with OS X

2005-12-29 Thread Danny Hembree
On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 17:03, James Reynolds wrote: Grumble. That is exactly what I wanted to know! Thanks! Does CPAN install C libraries to /usr/local/lib or somewhere else? I could search for all new files right after a CPAN install. James This gets hairy. Due OSX's unique directory

Re: CPAN modules not included with OS X

2005-12-29 Thread Joel Rees
On 2005.12.30, at 10:03 AM, James Reynolds wrote: Grumble. That is exactly what I wanted to know! Thanks! Does CPAN install C libraries to /usr/local/lib or somewhere else? Maybe it would help to tell you it ain't that simple? To mention openssl again, it can be installed in a variety

Re: CPAN modules ...

2005-12-29 Thread Chris Devers
On Fri, 30 Dec 2005, Joel Rees wrote: [CP_ERROR] [Mon Dec 26 14:07:55 2005] Fetching of 'ftp://ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/G/GA/GAAS/CHECKSUMS' failed: Command failed: [...] This hand installation usually works, but it would be very convenient if I could make

Re: CPAN

2005-10-29 Thread Dave Linton
On 29 Oct 2005, at 01:34, Sherm Pendley wrote: I think you've overestimated the amount of magic in CPAN. All it does is download the module, unzip it, and run perl Makefile.PL; make; make test; make install. The location to which modules will be installed is determined by Perl's configuration

Re: CPAN

2005-10-29 Thread Jeff Lowrey
with the OS and to which I've not (knowingly) made any configuration changes.) What you should do is run CPAN (sudo cpan), and type Install HTML::Parser. And then post the output from that here. -jeff

Re: CPAN

2005-10-29 Thread Dave Linton
On 29 Oct 2005, at 15:45, Jeff Lowrey wrote: What you should do is run CPAN (sudo cpan), and type Install HTML::Parser. And then post the output from that here. Thanks Jeff cpan tells me (after reporting various ftp transfers etc): HTML::Parser is up to date. Running the validator still

Re: CPAN

2005-10-29 Thread Gisle Aas
Dave Linton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 29 Oct 2005, at 15:45, Jeff Lowrey wrote: What you should do is run CPAN (sudo cpan), and type Install HTML::Parser. And then post the output from that here. Thanks Jeff cpan tells me (after reporting various ftp transfers etc): HTML

Re: CPAN

2005-10-29 Thread Sherm Pendley
48. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /Library/WebServer/Documents/ validator/htdocs/check line 48. When I copied Parser.pm from my ~/.cpan directory tree into Library/ Perl/5.8.1 Don't do that. Just run the install HTML::Parser command in the CPAN shell (like the documentation says to do

CPAN

2005-10-28 Thread Dave Linton
Dear List I'm attempting to use CPAN for the first time ... CPAN builds by default a directory structure under .cpan in my home directory. Perl looks for its include files in (i.e. @INC contains): /System/Library/Perl/5.8.1/darwin-thread-multi-2level /System/Library/Perl

Re: CPAN

2005-10-28 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Oct 28, 2005, at 7:59 PM, Dave Linton wrote: I'm attempting to use CPAN for the first time ... CPAN builds by default a directory structure under .cpan in my home directory. ... for its own use. That's where tarballs (.tar.gz files) are downloaded to, unzipped, configured, and built

Re: Speaking of CPAN

2005-09-01 Thread Joel Rees
can't remember for sure how I got it working but I think it prompted me to edit or add a valid cpan mirror to download modules from. I went to http://cpan.org/SITES.html and copy and pasted a url from the list of sites and it worked after that. Used ping and the traceroute tool in the GUI

Can't Run CPAN

2005-08-31 Thread Lola Lee
For some reason, when I try to do sudo cpan, it won't start up, and generates this following message: Terminal does not support AddHistory. CPAN.pm panic: Lockfile /Users/lolajl/.cpan/.lock reports other host TsarskoeSelo.local and other process 20574. Cannot proceed. Looking in Activity

Re: Can't Run CPAN

2005-08-31 Thread Lola Lee
Lola Lee wrote: For some reason, when I try to do sudo cpan, it won't start up, and generates this following message: Well . . . I figured it out - removed .lock and all is back to normal. I'd like to know why this happened, though. -- Lola - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lolajl.net

Re: Can't Run CPAN

2005-08-31 Thread Daniel T. Staal
On Wed, August 31, 2005 7:31 am, Lola Lee said: Lola Lee wrote: For some reason, when I try to do sudo cpan, it won't start up, and generates this following message: Well . . . I figured it out - removed .lock and all is back to normal. I'd like to know why this happened, though. Sounds

Speaking of CPAN

2005-08-31 Thread Joel Rees
anyone besides me having trouble accessing the mirrors? I've been rebuilding my iBook when I can spare ten minutes here and a half hour there. I installed perl 5.8.7 several weeks back under /usr/local and started CPAN with the path set to look at /usr/local/bin before /usr/bin

Re: psync and MacOSX::File installing with cpan

2005-07-11 Thread Ken Williams
On Jul 8, 2005, at 10:56 PM, Chris Devers wrote: The first failed test is: use MacOSX::File::Catalog; ... my $asked = askgetfileinfo(dummy); $asked eq avbstcLinmed ? ok(1) : ok(0); Dan, it would be helpful if you'd just write lines like this simply as: ok $asked,

Re: psync and MacOSX::File installing with cpan

2005-07-09 Thread gertlist
Hi, while trying to use a module (Finance::Quote) I got an almost similar message. I don't know whether this is related. All modules are installed correctly (especially HTML::TableExtract). Has anybody an idea whether this has to do with Tiger and how I can work around it? Can't locate

Fwd: psync for tiger? (SOLVED) [Re: psync and MacOSX::File installing with cpan]

2005-07-09 Thread Iyanaga Nobumi
/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.730) I have managed to install psync on Tiger. It seems that the problem was the bug in testing code. Heh. All it was needed was force install MacOSX::File in the cpan shell (sudo perl

psync and MacOSX::File installing with cpan

2005-07-08 Thread Joseph Alotta
15. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /Users/jja/bin/psync line 15. So I tried to install MacOSX::File and got these errors. Does anyone know what I am doing wrong? Joe. cpan install MacOSX::File Running install for module MacOSX::File Running make for D/DA/DANKOGAI/MacOSX-File-0.69

Re: psync and MacOSX::File installing with cpan

2005-07-08 Thread Chris Devers
On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Joseph Alotta wrote: So I tried to install MacOSX::File and got these errors. Does anyone know what I am doing wrong? I get the same result: macgarnicle:~/.cpan/build/MacOSX-File-0.69 root# make test PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl -MExtUtils::Command::MM -e

Re: psync and MacOSX::File installing with cpan

2005-07-08 Thread Dan Kogai
Folks, On Jul 09, 2005, at 12:56 , Chris Devers wrote: The first failed test is: use MacOSX::File::Catalog; ... my $asked = askgetfileinfo(dummy); $asked eq avbstcLinmed ? ok(1) : ok(0); The second failed test is nearly identical: use MacOSX::File; use

Re: Frickin' CPAN

2005-06-09 Thread John Mercer
Hi guys, Firewall problems? Or config problems? Or both? I've found that CPAN works when I run sudo perl -MCPAN etc, but not when I run as root: macbox:/ root# perl -MCPAN. I find that very strange, but hey, if it works as sudo, it works and that's all I need. However, it doesn't work

Re: Frickin' CPAN

2005-06-09 Thread Larry Prall
You might want to take a look at that URL list. Try going to each site by hand and see how long it takes to connect. Move your fastest sites to the top of the list. - Larry On Jun 9, 2005, at 11:04 AM, John Mercer wrote: urllist ftp://ftp.sunsite.utk.edu/pub/CPAN

Re: Frickin' CPAN

2005-06-09 Thread Ken Williams
], -Ken On Jun 9, 2005, at 10:04 AM, John Mercer wrote: Hi guys, Firewall problems? Or config problems? Or both? I've found that CPAN works when I run sudo perl -MCPAN etc, but not when I run as root: macbox:/ root# perl -MCPAN. I find that very strange, but hey, if it works as sudo, it works

Frickin' CPAN

2005-06-08 Thread John Mercer
Hi all, CPAN is being a pain in the ass, and I don't know what the problem is. Here's an error message when I run install Bundle::XML. Can't exec /usr/bin: Permission denied at /System/Library/Perl/ 5.8.6/darwin-thread-multi-2level/IO/File.pm line 176, FIN line 1. Could not pipe[/usr/bin

Re: Frickin' CPAN

2005-06-08 Thread John Mercer
That's strange. I ran CPAN with sudo perl -MCPAN etc etc and everything worked fine. But here's another question: why did it work w/ sudo but not as root (su)? --jm PS. Thanks Tommy On Jun 8, 2005, at 5:01 PM, Tommy Nordgren wrote: Jun 8, 2005 kl. 10:14 PM skrev John Mercer: Hi all

Re: Frickin' CPAN

2005-06-08 Thread John Delacour
At 6:00 pm -0400 8/6/05, John Mercer wrote: That's strange. I ran CPAN with sudo perl -MCPAN etc etc and everything worked fine. But here's another question: why did it work w/ sudo but not as root (su)? The way I log in as root is by running: sudo -s JD

RE: Frickin' CPAN

2005-06-08 Thread Jan Dubois
error when I'm running CPAN as the root user. Root has--I checked-- read, write, execute permissions in that directory (/System/Library/ etc, etc). Regarding the second error, I have no idea what that's about. Could fink have somehow messed up my perl installation. In case this helps, I'm

Re: Frickin' CPAN

2005-06-08 Thread Ken Williams
Hi John, The permissions thing is a red herring. Look more closely at the error message. It's trying to run a program called /usr/bin. Look at your CPAN configuration (o conf in the CPAN shell) to figure out why. -Ken On Jun 8, 2005, at 3:14 PM, John Mercer wrote: Hi all, CPAN

Re: Using CPAN to install DBI on Tiger

2005-05-06 Thread Robert
Morbus Iff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] cpan install DBI CPAN: Storable loaded ok Going to read /Users/robert/.cpan/Metadata Running install for module DBI I didn't install it, but sudo cpan DBI works fine for me: Running install for module DBI Running make

Using CPAN to install DBI on Tiger

2005-05-03 Thread Robert Hicks
it is possible it is down but when I go to install DBI I get the following error: cpan install DBI CPAN: Storable loaded ok Going to read /Users/robert/.cpan/Metadata Running install for module DBI The module DBI isn't available on CPAN. Either the module has not yet been uploaded to CPAN

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