Re: [MacPerl] More Mac-CPAN Woes

[Paul Schinder <schinder@pobox.com>]

At 7:02 AM -0500 3/14/00, Chris Nandor wrote:
>At 12.42 -0700 2000.03.13, Keary Suska wrote:
>>I was able to determine that I had a bad File::Find, but now I get the
>>following:
>>
>>Copying :LWP:Authen:Basic.pm -> Programming:Applications:Development:MacP=
erl
>>=9F:site_perl:LWP:Authen
>># Deep recursion on subroutine "File::Path::mkpath", <IN> chunk 16305.
>>File 'Programming:Applications:Development:MacPerl =9F:lib:File:Path.pm';=
 Line
>>132
>>
>>At this point it just gets in some loop and fills up the memory until it
>>fatally freezes the whole machine. Any ideas?
>
>Perhaps you have a bad File::Path, too?
>
>I wonder if maybe File::Path has problems with symlinks / aliases=20
>... do you have any aliases in the path in question?

Look for one of those bloody "Icon\015" files in your site_perl tree.=20
Unfortunately, they're invisible, so you'll have to figure out how to=20
find invisible files with Sherlock/Find File.  In the version of=20
Sherlock I have (MacOS 9), it's easy to ask it for all invisible=20
files, but apparently impossible to specify a specific directory tree.

I've issued one patch for CPAN.pm to deal with problems caused by=20
these beasts, but last weekend I ran into another one.  Not having=20
the time to diagnose, I simply search and destroyed.  That fixed it=20
right up.

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