Re: [MacPerl] DBI...

[Charles Albrecht <charlesa@pobox.com>]

At 1:48 PM -0500 12/11/2000, Ricky Morse <rem14@cornell.edu> wrote:
>Hi!  I just tried to install the DBI stuff from C. Nandor's directory,
>but CPAN-mac gives me an error:
>
>># Could not gzopen :site_perl:.cpan:sources:authors:id:CNANDOR:DBI-1.08-
>>bin-2-MacOS.tar.gz.
>>File 'Buxtehude:Applications:MacPerl ?:site_perl:CPAN.pm'; Line 4207
>
>Does anyone know about this problem?  How can I fix it?

The problem is the relative path assigned in Config.pm. (specifically, 
:site_perl:CPAN:Config.pm).

So, for instance, where you've got something like...

  'build_dir' => q[:site_perl:.cpan:build],
  'cpan_home' => q[:site_perl:.cpan],
  'keep_source_where' => q[:site_perl:.cpan:sources],
 
Change these to:

  'build_dir' => q[Buxtehude:Applications:MacPerl ?:site_perl:.cpan:build],
  'cpan_home' => q[Buxtehude:Applications:MacPerl ?:site_perl:.cpan],
  'keep_source_where' => 
                 q[Buxtehude:Applications:MacPerl ?:site_perl:.cpan:sources],


When TIEHANDLE is called at that point in the script (I spent a good while 
tracking this down), the current directory has been changed and it is inside 
the build directory. As a result, the relative reference, 
 :site_perl:.cpan:sources:authors:id:CNANDOR:DBI-1.08-bin-2-MacOS.tar.gz

Is, in absolute terms, something like:
 Buxtehude:Applications:MacPerl ?:site_perl:.cpan:build:site_perl:.cpan:
 sources:authors:id:CNANDOR:DBI-1.08-bin-2-MacOS.tar.gz

Which is why you get the 'No such file or directory' error.

-Charles Albrecht
 charlesa@pobox.com
 cwa2@cornell.edu (Arts '89) :)

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