On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 05:06:29PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > $ mmk uninstall > > Uninstall is unsafe and deprecated, the uninstallation was not performed. > We will show what would have been done. > > no packlist file found: at /perl_root/lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm line 318. > %RMS-E-FNF, file not found > %MMK-F-ERRUPD, error status %X00018292 occurred when updating target > UNINSTALL_FROM_SITEDIRS > > So the install target in the Makefile (the descrip.mms file) is > capable of writing the file to > perl_root:[lib.site_perl.VMS_AXP.auto.WWW.Mechanize].packlist > but Install.pm cannot then find it later.
No, it was a bug in ExtUtils::Command::MM->uninstall. It was reading from @_ instead of @ARGV. It had been broken for almost a year, but nobody had noticed. :) It was fixed in 6.18. > Don't worry though I do know the drill: upgrade everything and pull the > latest makemaker from some obscure URL. http://search.cpan.org/dist/ExtUtils-MakeMaker/ is the obscure URL. -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Playstation? Of course Perl runs on Playstation. -- Jarkko Hietaniemi
