[MacPerl] w3mir

[Leif Halvard Silli <lhsilli@online.no>]

Hello,

I want to be able to use the mirror program "W3MIR" which can be found at
<http://www.math.uio.no/~janl/w3mir/>  Has anyone on this list made a
succesfull installation of w3mir ? The followin shall of course demonstrate
my complete lack of knowledge about Perl. But I still post it to find out
whether I have to learn a lot before coping with w3mir, or if this will
teach me the basics.....

I tried to follow the installation instructions on the w3mir page.  I just
clicked on the make file.pl files in each module I had to install and ran
the make file.pl

One problem I had was with the libwww-perl-5.41. After runnin 'makefile.PL'
MacPerl reported that

>Checking for URI........... failed
># Can't locate URI.pm in @INC.
>File 'ljovuskahd:Desktop
>Folder:Mirrorprogram:libwww-perl-5.41:Makefile.PL'; Line 32
>
>The URI module must be installed.  WWW without URIs would not
>be that great :-)

Then i tried to install the URI module version 1.0.1 and 1.0.2 and then
tried to install the libwww again, only to get the same result. Why ?

Installation of MIME-Base64-2.11 went fine. After this, without the URI, I
tried to install w3mir. Having run the makefile.PL MacPerl reported :
>Checking if your kit is complete... Looks good

Then comes the one million $ question: suppose everything above is ok, what
do I do now ? I tried tio click on the "w3mir.PL"-file, but the I got the
answer that the file was to big and tried to save it as a droplet getting
this result:

># Can't locate w3http.pm in @INC.
>File 'ljovuskahd:Desktop Folder:Mirrorprogram:w3mir.PL'; Line 198
># BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.
>File 'ljovuskahd:Desktop Folder:Mirrorprogram:w3mir.PL'; Line 198

Saving as runtime gave failure in Line 5 instead. When I opened the file in
Alpha, I found nothing meaningful in Line 198, since it was a comment and
should therefore not affect w3mir ? But perhaps 'Line' has a more specific
meaning than I think here ?

A simple xplanation would be welcome...

Leif



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