Apache::mod_perl_guide installation quirk

[Marcel Grunauer]

I'm using CPAN.pm to install Apache::mod_perl_guide and have noticed two things:

I didn't have Pod::HtmlPsPdf installed, but instead of downloading and installing that 
module automatically, it just said that it wasn't installed and stopped.

After installing Pod::HtmlPsPdf, it installed fine but then I used a
different path than the default and it complained about missing files,
when they were, in fact, present:

Enter the directory to install the html files : 
[/home/httpd/docs/manual/mod_perl_guide] 
/usr/local/apache/marcel/htdocs/perldocs/mod_perl/guide
Checking if your kit is complete...
Warning: the following files are missing in your kit:
./.config
./COPYING
./Changes
./LICENSE
./MANIFEST
./Makefile.PL
./README
./bin/build
./conf/html2ps-global.conf
./conf/html2ps-slides.conf
./conf/html2ps.conf
./conf/hyphen.tex
./mod_perl_guide.pm
./src/CHANGES
./src/Version.pm
./src/advocacy.pod
./src/browserbugs.pod
./src/code/DB_File-Lock2.pm
./src/code/My-DB.pm
./src/code/mysql-3.22.29_backup.pl
./src/code/mysql-3.22.29_restore.pl
./src/code/mysql-3.22.30+_backup.pl
./src/code/mysql-3.22.30+_restore.pl
./src/config.pod
./src/control.pod
./src/correct_headers.pod
./src/databases.pod
./src/dbm.pod
./src/debug.pod
./src/download.pod
./src/frequent.pod
./src/hardware.pod
./src/help.pod
./src/images/mod_perl.gif
./src/images/mod_perl2.jpg
./src/install.pod
./src/intro.pod
./src/modules.pod
./src/multiuser.pod
./src/performance.pod
./src/perl.pod
./src/porting.pod
./src/scenario.pod
./src/security.pod
./src/snippets.pod
./src/start.pod
./src/strategy.pod
./src/style.css
./src/troubleshooting.pod
./tmpl/index.tmpl
./tmpl/indexps.tmpl
./tmpl/page.tmpl
./tmpl/pageps.tmpl
./tmpl/splitpage.tmpl
Please inform the author.
Writing Makefile for Apache::mod_perl_guide
/usr/local/cpan/build/Apache-mod_perl_guide-1.26/bin/build -m
+++ Processing the pod files 
+++ intro.pod : processing (modified / forced)

and so on, then it installed fine.

Maybe some problem with relative paths?


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Re: Apache::mod_perl_guide installation quirk

[Stas Bekman]

On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Marcel Grunauer wrote:

> 
> I'm using CPAN.pm to install Apache::mod_perl_guide and have noticed two things:

Thanks for this report Marcel!
 
> I didn't have Pod::HtmlPsPdf installed, but instead of downloading and installing 
>that module automatically, it just said that it wasn't installed and stopped.

A missing PREREQ_PM entry in Makefile.PL -- it's fixed in the CVS version.

> After installing Pod::HtmlPsPdf, it installed fine but then I used a
> different path than the default and it complained about missing files,
> when they were, in fact, present:
> 
> Enter the directory to install the html files : 
>[/home/httpd/docs/manual/mod_perl_guide] 
>/usr/local/apache/marcel/htdocs/perldocs/mod_perl/guide
> Checking if your kit is complete...
> Warning: the following files are missing in your kit:
> ./.config
> ./COPYING
> ./Changes
> ./LICENSE
[more files snipped]
> ./src/troubleshooting.pod
> ./tmpl/index.tmpl
> ./tmpl/indexps.tmpl
> ./tmpl/page.tmpl
> ./tmpl/pageps.tmpl
> ./tmpl/splitpage.tmpl
> Please inform the author.
> Writing Makefile for Apache::mod_perl_guide
> /usr/local/cpan/build/Apache-mod_perl_guide-1.26/bin/build -m
> +++ Processing the pod files 
> +++ intro.pod : processing (modified / forced)
> 
> and so on, then it installed fine.
> 
> Maybe some problem with relative paths?

I don't know why, but MANIFEST doesn't accept files starting with ./ --
very weird. Anyway it's fixed now.

Thanks!

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