On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 04:25:23PM -0700, David Oswald wrote: > The module Digest::MD5 was added to the Perl core distribution in Perl > 5.8.0. That means that users committed to pre-5.8.0 versions of Perl > will have to install Digest::MD5 if they need it. However, as of > version 2.51, Digest::MD5 is no longer backward compatible with Perls > earlier than 5.8.1. This isn't such a big deal for a user of 5.8.0, > since it came with an older version of Digest::MD5. But users of Perl > versions earlier than 5.8.0 are forced to explicitly install an old > Digest::MD5 version (2.40 or earlier). > > The various CPAN installers (cpan, cpanm, cpanp) default to pulling in > the most recent version of any module, and in the case of Digest::MD5, > this means that the default behavior is to pull in a version that > won't build on Perl's earlier than 5.8.1.
> In the specific case of my user, the user was trying to install > Math::Prime::FastSieve, which has an Inline::CPP dependency, which has > an Inline dependency, which has a Digest::MD5 dependency. The user > was trying to install on Perl 5.6.1. > > I guess my question is "What has to happen next?" :) This is a general problem, to which the general solution is probably the excellent cpxxxan: http://cpxxxan.barnyard.co.uk/ In this particular case, I suppose http://cp5.6.2an.barnyard.co.uk/ is the instance you would need. And looking in the index at http://cp5.6.2an.barnyard.co.uk/modules/02packages.details.txt you can see that the version of Digest::MD5 is indeed 2.40. -- Paul Johnson - p...@pjcj.net http://www.pjcj.net
