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

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