Re: [MacPerl] CPAN-Mac

[Keary Suska <aksuska@webflyer.com>]

> 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 any
> extra modules installed apart from cpan-mac stuff?

Perl version: 5.20r4
cpan-mac: 0.40 (trying to install using install.plx distributed with the ne=
w
version. I think I have an older version installed, but I am not using it t=
o
install the new cpan-mac.)

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 updated
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 the
case, and if so, should I back it up before running cpan-mac? I didn't see
anything to this effect in the readme.

The complete output from the cpan-mac installer:
__BEGIN__
Copying                      -> Programming:Applications:Development:MacPer=
l
=9F:site_perl
# Died.
File 'Programming:Desktop Folder:cpan-mac-0.40:INSTALL.plx'; Line 73
__END__

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."

Thanks for any help you can give.
-K

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds"

> At 20.34 -0700 2000.03.08, A K Suska wrote:
>> I have been trying to install the latest cpan mac but the installer fail=
s.
>> It appears that File::Find is passing a "." to copyit() which is causing=
 it
>> to choke. That is as far as I got. Has anyone else experienced this prob=
lem?
>=20


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