[MacPerl] Re: Problems installing Mac Glue

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 17.34 +0000 1999.12.26, John Delacour wrote:
>On dropping the expanded Mac-Glue-0.58 onto install.plx I first got
>dialogs warning me of unspecified memory problems.  It was necessary to
>launch MacPerl first to avoid these (I had 30 Mb) of memory allocqated to
>MacPerl
>
>The installation log then gave me this:
>
>
>Checking if your kit is complete...
>Warning: the following files are missing in your kit:
>	:blib:lib:MacCFM68K:auto:Mac:Processes:Processes
>	:blib:lib:MacPPC:auto:Mac:Processes:Processes
>	:scripts:gluedialect
>	:scripts:glueedit
>	:scripts:gluemac
>	:scripts:gluescriptadds
>	:scripts:show_glue_pods
>Please inform the author.
>Writing Makefile.mk for Mac::Glue.....
>
>The reason these files are "missing", it became clear after an hour or so
>of fiddling about, is that they remain as undecoded MacBinary files with
>.bin suffix.

Odd.  What version of cpan-mac do you have installed?


>On my decoding them in the original folder, the installation went smoothly
except that I had to move the scripts folder manually to site_perl.

The scripts folder does not go in site_perl.  It doesn't really go
anywhere, specifically.  Just wherever you feel like it.


>All the scripts
>Have problems with memory if MacPerl is not already running,

What kind of problems?  Do you have more than one version of the MacPerl
app installed?  If so, simply executing a script when MacPerl is not
running may start the wrong version of the app for you.


>and all of them fail with problems in glue.pm, eg:
>
># Unquoted string "peffpwpc" may clash with future reserved word.
>File 'D8:Program Files:MacPerl Ÿ:site_perl:Mac:Glue.pm'; Line 1
># Unrecognized character \001.
>File 'D8:Program Files:MacPerl Ÿ:site_perl:Mac:Glue.pm'; Line 1
># BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.
>File 'D8:Program Files:MacPerl Ÿ:site_perl:scripts:gluedialect'; Line 11
>.....

That is very odd.  The character "\001" does not exist in Mac::Glue, nor
does the string "peffpwpc".  And since these all appear to be on line 1, it
seems that the file did not get translated from Unix to Mac text; so again,
as noted above, it seems cpan-mac is the culprit.  Either cpan-mac is not
installed properly, or there is an old version installed.  Along with
checking the version of cpan-mac installed, could you tell me what the
contents of @INC are?

  print join "\n", @INC;

Thanks,

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Chris Nandor          mailto:pudge@pobox.com         http://pudge.net/
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