On 29 Oct 2005, at 01:34, Sherm Pendley wrote:
I think you've overestimated the amount of magic in CPAN. All it does
is download the module, unzip it, and run "perl Makefile.PL; make;
make test; make install". The location to which modules will be
installed is determined by Perl's configuration, and is the same
whether you use CPAN.pm to run those commands or run them yourself
from a shell prompt. (More to the point, you *don't* need to "set up"
anything to get modules installed in their proper locations, because
Perl *already* knows where they need to be installed.)
Where CPAN *really* shines is in managing dependencies. ...
Ok, the above makes sense to me - unfortunately, it doesn't allow me to
fix my original problem ...
I'm attempting to install the WC3 HTML validator on my Mac by following
the instructions from
http://developer.apple.com/internet/opensource/validator.html
Things seem to work in accordance with the instructions and the local
validator web page is available on my machine. However, when I tried to
validate a page, I got the error message:
Can't locate HTML/Parser.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
/System/Library/Perl/5.8.1/darwin-thread-multi-2level
/System/Library/Perl/5.8.1
/Library/Perl/5.8.1/darwin-thread-multi-2level /Library/Perl/5.8.1
/Library/Perl /Network/Library/Perl/5.8.1/darwin-thread-multi-2level
/Network/Library/Perl/5.8.1 /Network/Library/Perl) at
/Library/WebServer/Documents/validator/htdocs/check line 48.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
/Library/WebServer/Documents/validator/htdocs/check line 48.
When I copied Parser.pm from my ~/.cpan directory tree into
Library/Perl/5.8.1, attempting to validate a page gave me the error
message:
Can't locate loadable object for module HTML::Parser in @INC (@INC
contains: <as above>) at
/Library/WebServer/Documents/validator/htdocs/check line 48
Compilation failed in require at
/Library/WebServer/Documents/validator/htdocs/check line 48.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
/Library/WebServer/Documents/validator/htdocs/check line 48.
Hence my original question about where should I put the files from CPAN.
So, I've got a serious lack of understanding on my part about how to
set things up - I don't know enough to know if it's a Perl
configuration or a validator problem. Suggestions would be welcome.
(I'm running Mac OS X 10.3.9 with the Perl that came with the OS and to
which I've not (knowingly) made any configuration changes.)
Dave
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