Re: [MacPerl-Modules] cpan-mac and Bundle::CPAN 1.51 problems

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 17.07 -0500 2000.01.03, Paul Schinder wrote:
>You really Should Not Have Done This.  *Don't* assume the Bundles
>will work under MacPerl, because in general they won't.  The
>instructions that CPAN.pm gives you when there's an upgrade available
>are for Unix users.

>From the cpan-mac README:

# Note that it is often better to install modules individually rather than
# Bundles, unless you know a Bundle is safe to install under MacPerl.


>>At this point, having installed the above modules, I get:
>># No such signal: SIGPIPE.
>>File 'Jeff-HD:Jeff:MacPerl =9F:site_perl:Net:Cmd.pm'; Line 169
>># No such signal: SIGPIPE.
>>File 'Jeff-HD:Jeff:MacPerl =9F:site_perl:Net:Cmd.pm'; Line 167
>>a bunch of times and then
>
>
>These you can ignore.  All they're telling you, correctly, is that
>there's no SIGPIPE in MacPerl.  Comment it out if you want.

Yes, but in the Net::Cmd that comes with cpan-mac 0.40, that should not
ever happen.  It looks like that is an old Net::Cmd.


>Drag your site_perl folder to the trash.  Reinstall *only* cpan-mac.
>Whatever you need is in there.  Do *not* attempt to install
>Bundle::CPAN.  You can, if you want, upgrade CPAN.pm itself to 1.51
>("install CPAN").

Well, some people have lots of extra modules.  As he has used Mac::Glue, he
probably has a lot of glue files in there.  I would not recommend just
trashing it.  However, running the installer from cpan-mac should overwrite
the bad files he has in there, overwriting the existing ones.

The other option is to make note of modules he has installed separate from
cpan-mac (like Mac::Glue) and save them or reinstall them after getting rid
of site_perl.

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