Greg, On Thursday, September 21, 2006 7:05 PM you wrote: > ... > > This CPAN stuff is pretty scary! :-) I must have just downloaded > > and installed several hundred new Perl packages in the list 5 > > minutes! > > Yes, if there is a lot of prerequities my method is tedious. >
Well $ cpan cpan> install ... is great when everything works (almost as good as apt-get! :) > ... > You are not alone with this problem, and it is not a bug, > I believe, in this module. Search with Google > "Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte". > Some persons change the read/write mode of the filehandle to > the binary one (with binmode), some others prepend a LANG=C > to the command line. Or maybe modifying the open call with a > "<:byte" or a "<:utf8" could help (see perldoc PerlIO). But > this requires to modify this module, it's not a good solution. I just did: $ LANG=C perl -MCPAN -e 'install File::Type' and the install worked fine. Thank you, thank you, thank you! Now I finally have a working $ svk version This is svk, version 1.08. > Is there some Perl gurus here? I think you are well qualified for that job. :-) Regards, Bill Page. _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
