Re: [MacPerl] CPAN-Mac

[Keary Suska <aksuska@webflyer.com>]

> 1) I increased the memory allotment to MacPerl before installing (max 20 =
mb,
> min 8 mb)

I had it at 40mb, in anticipation for the hefty requirements of cpan-shell.
The installer is a separate application though, so I am not sure how
changing MacPerl's memory would help. For grins, I increased the allocation
for the installer to 20mb, but still no dice (as I expected).

> 2) I didn't install from a desktop folder, i had the CPAN installer in a
> subfolder)

For grins (again), I moved the cpan 0.40 folder into the MacPerl folder.
Same error.

> 3) I created the HOME variable before running the installer
I already had a valid HOME, and I even tried to force "site_perl" to be the
first lib location checked. I even removed my site_perl in case there was a
some odd module conflict there.

I will try to restore an original File::Find in case there is something
wrong there...

-K

"To argue with a man who has renounced his reason is like giving medicine t=
o
the dead."
    - Thomas Paine

> From: Kevin van Haaren <kevinv@hockey.net>
> Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 12:17:54 -0600
> To: Keary Suska <aksuska@webflyer.com>, <macperl@macperl.org>
> Subject: Re: [MacPerl] CPAN-Mac
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> I just installed 0.40 on my mac (iBook running OS 9) with no
> problems.  The only thing different I may have done is:
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> I didn't have a site_perl folder (I have my modules in a different
> location and just modify the library pointer in MacPerl).  The
> installer created it for me.  After install i added the site_perl to
> the library path so it would be first.
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> Kevin
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> At 4:21 PM -0700 3/10/2000, Keary Suska wrote:
>>> From: Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>
>>> Can you give us the exact error message, your version of MacPerl, your
>>> version of cpan-mac, and any other info that may relate?  Do you have a=
ny
>>> extra modules installed apart from cpan-mac stuff?
>>=20
>> Perl version: 5.20r4
>> cpan-mac: 0.40 (trying to install using install.plx distributed with the=
 new
>> version. I think I have an older version installed, but I am not using i=
t to
>> install the new cpan-mac.)
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>> I am not sure what you mean by, "any extra modules installed apart from
>> cpan-mac stuff." I have the standard macperl distrib, which I have updat=
ed
>> in some places (libwww, for example), as well as several handfuls of
>> miscellaneous modules in site_perl. When looking at the cpan-mac code it
>> seemed like it would overwrite a bunch of stuff in site_perl. Is this th=
e
>> case, and if so, should I back it up before running cpan-mac? I didn't s=
ee
>> anything to this effect in the readme.
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>> The complete output from the cpan-mac installer:
>> __BEGIN__
>> Copying                      -> Programming:Applications:Development:Mac=
Perl
>> =9F:site_perl
>> # Died.
>> File 'Programming:Desktop Folder:cpan-mac-0.40:INSTALL.plx'; Line 73
>> __END__
>>=20
>> The line of code in copyit() where it is 'die'ing at prints $^E, which
>> doesn't contain anything, but $! contains "No such file or directory."
>>=20
>> Thanks for any help you can give.
>> -K
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