--- Derek Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Aaron Griffin wrote: > > On 2/13/06, Derek Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > >> Rerefernce: "I could try to install from the > cache". > >> > >> I tried pacman -Sf perl. It said that installed > 5.8.8-1, a check of the library directory still > showed the latest revision accounted for as 5.8.7. > Build still failed. > >> > >> Look like I'll have to move the computer to a > wire to straighten things out, eh? > >> > > > > Don't just reinstall, pacman -Rd perl, then > install it again. IIRC > > that should fix it > > _______________________________________________ > > arch mailing list > > arch@archlinux.org > > http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch > > > > > Hi Aaron, > > Thx for replying so quickly! > > I tried unistalling (pacman -Rd perl; pacman -S > perl). It still failed > to create the symbolic link to 5.8.8. The build of > ndiswrapper still > failed as before. > > I manually created the link (ln -s ./current > ./5.8.8). This created the > link. I rebuilt ndiswrapper successfully! > > I'm now pinging the network through ndiswrapper, but > I'm unsure as to > the advisability of manually creating the link. Do > you foresee problems > down the road? > > Doing (pacman -Syu), I figured, would probably fix > anything I might have > going. > > _______________________________________________ > arch mailing list > arch@archlinux.org > http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch > There is, or was, a tcl-tk project to remove the ndiswrapper dependancy on Perl over at Puppy Linux to remove the ndiswrapper dependancy on Perl. They use tk scripts rather than perl. I do not know what its status is, but it looked like a good idea to me.
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