On Dec 5, 2004, at 6:56 AM, William Ross wrote:
On 5 Dec 2004, at 09:07, Marek Stepanek wrote:
* installing blib/man1 to ?~name * with PERL_INSTALL_ROOT '' * mkpath(?~name) mkdir ?~name: Invalid argument at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.5/ExtUtils/Install.pm line 115 make: *** [pure_site_install] Error 255
your perl configuration is slightly broken. If you look in (probably)
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.5/darwin-2level/Config.pm
you should see a couple of lines like this:
installman1dir='/usr/share/man/man1' installman3dir='/usr/share/man/man3'
In mine they're around line 760. The value for installman1dir in yours is broken, I'm guessing. Others may be too.
I'm guessing this happened because while installing perl, it asked you where you wanted to install your man pages, saying something like "Where would you like to install manual pages for executables (~name ok)?", and you typed "?~name".
What it meant was that you could type "~marek", or the name of some user's home directory, and it would expand it. But "?~name" wasn't what it was looking for. =)
-Ken
