Re: [MacPerl] MLDBM Module

[Paul Schinder <schinder@pobox.com>]

At 4:04 PM +0200 3/16/00, Sean Carte wrote:
>I've been mucking about with hashes and dbm files for some time now 
>and have finally reached the point where I've realised that 
>multi-level hashes require the use of the MLDBM module (actually I 
>found that out by searching the excellent list archives).
>
>Unfortunately, I can't seem to get the MLDBM module to work on my 
>Mac. (It installs and runs fine under MkLinux.) I have installed the 
>port of Data-Dumper-2.101 (copied Dumper.pm to site_perl:Data). But 
>couldn't find any port of MLDBM-2.00. So I assumed it was a simple 
>matter of sorting out line-breaks and copying MLDBM.pm to site_perl.
>
>I get the following error when I try to use MLDBM:
>
># MLDBM.pm did not return a true value.
>File '<AppleEvent>'; Line 5
># BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.
>File '<AppleEvent>'; Line 5
>
>Any ideas?

That error looks an awful lot like the one you get when you don't fix 
the linebreaks.  Check MLDBM.pm and see that you have.  You also 
appear not to have installed Data::Dumper correctly, which is an XS 
module, so you should have installed the shared library in the proper 
place (:site_perl:MacPPC:auto:Data:Dumper:Dumper)  See 
http://pudge.net/mmp.  You'll be much happier in the future if you 
use the tools that come with cpan-mac to install modules.

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>SeanC
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