Re: Perl CPAN module help

2003-11-19 Thread Peter J. Acklam
Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe my memory is going, but I thought the reason you suggested > he switch to /usr/local was so that he wouldn't have the > HEAD/head.exe conflict and it would go ahead and successfully > install /usr/local/bin/HEAD. Well, yes, but many peopl

Re: Perl CPAN module help

2003-11-18 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 04:29:18PM +0100, "Peter J. Acklam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Gary Nielson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Thank you so much. If I wanted to start fresh with a new perl > > installation -- replacing the executables and all the modules -- > > how do you recommend I do

RE: Perl CPAN module help

2003-11-18 Thread Gary Nielson
; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Perl CPAN module help "Gary Nielson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you so much. If I wanted to start fresh with a new perl > installation -- replacing the executables and all the modules -- > how do you recommend I do this under cygwi

Re: Perl CPAN module help

2003-11-18 Thread Peter J. Acklam
"Gary Nielson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you so much. If I wanted to start fresh with a new perl > installation -- replacing the executables and all the modules -- > how do you recommend I do this under cygwin. - Run setup.exe and uninstall all versions of perl. - Manually remove th

RE: Perl CPAN module help

2003-11-17 Thread Gary Nielson
start for everything. I really like setup.exe to install things, it is sweet. Thanks again! -Original Message- From: Peter J. Acklam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 5:13 AM To: Gary Nielson Cc: Peter J. Acklam; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Perl CPAN module

Re: Perl CPAN module help

2003-11-17 Thread Patrick Eisenacher
Hi, I just read what Peter said about 'install' and 'force install'. I had to use 'force install' as well for installing the BerkeleyDB module, as 9 out of 20 tests were failing. So far it is running fine, but I haven't done any heavy usage tests yet, just some simple storages and retrievals.

Re: Perl CPAN module help

2003-11-17 Thread Peter J. Acklam
"Gary Nielson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you for your help. I understand what you are saying > here. I will try installing under /usr/local. I forgot to mention that Perl will not, by default, search for modules in /usr/local. This is a disadvantage, but it's worth it, in my opinion. T

RE: Perl CPAN module help

2003-11-17 Thread Gary Nielson
EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Perl CPAN module help "Gary Nielson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am getting somewhere. I used setup and installed needed > executables such as gcc. Did a force install in cpan for LWP > modules and it seemed to be go great. All tests were succe

Re: Perl CPAN module help

2003-11-16 Thread Peter J. Acklam
"Gary Nielson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am getting somewhere. I used setup and installed needed > executables such as gcc. Did a force install in cpan for LWP > modules and it seemed to be go great. All tests were successful > in make test. But when running make install I got the error: You

Re: Perl CPAN module help

2003-11-16 Thread Brian Dessent
Gary Nielson wrote: > > Hi, > > I am getting somewhere. I used setup and installed needed executables such > as gcc. Did a force install in cpan for LWP modules and it seemed to be go > great. All tests were successful in make test. But when running make install > I got the error: > > "Cannot fo

RE: Perl CPAN module help

2003-11-16 Thread Gary Nielson
er posed to a perl forum? Any help appreciated. -Original Message- From: Peter J. Acklam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 2:52 AM To: Gary Nielson; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Perl CPAN module help "Gary Nielson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I

Re: Perl CPAN module help

2003-11-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 04:25:01PM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: >Hello Gary, > >Wednesday, November 12, 2003, 7:57:42 PM, you wrote: > >> I tried installing several perl modules today, but make test failed on >> several in the LWP package and for HTML::Parser etc. Couldn't find modules >> I'd alre

Re: Perl CPAN module help

2003-11-14 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hello Gary, Wednesday, November 12, 2003, 7:57:42 PM, you wrote: > I tried installing several perl modules today, but make test failed on > several in the LWP package and for HTML::Parser etc. Couldn't find modules > I'd already installed in the INC path. With HTML::Parser it couldn't run gcc > b

RE: Perl CPAN module help

2003-11-14 Thread Peter J. Acklam
Patrick Eisenacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >man CPAN has this to offer: > ># list all modules on my disk that have newer versions on CPAN >for $mod (CPAN::Shell->expand("Module","/./")){ > next unless $mod->inst_file; > next if $mod->uptodate; > printf "Module %s is installed as %s, coul

RE: Perl CPAN module help

2003-11-14 Thread Peter J. Acklam
Doug VanLeuven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >#!/usr/bin/perl > >use CPAN; ># list all modules on my disk and note the newer versions >for $mod (CPAN::Shell->expand("Module","/./")){ > next unless $mod->inst_file; > # here only when installed > if ($mod->inst_version

Re: Perl CPAN module help

2003-11-14 Thread zzapper
Thanx, What the doctor ordered!! I took one of the suggested Perl Scripts and use thus:- listmod.pl | grep -i pod zzapper -- vim -c ":%s/^/WhfgTNabgureRIvzSUnpxre/|:%s/[R-T]/ /Ig|:normal ggVGg?" http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=305 Best of Vim Tips -- Unsubscribe info: http://cyg

Re: Perl CPAN module help

2003-11-14 Thread Patrick Eisenacher
or quick and dirty: perl -e 'use CPAN; CPAN::Shell->r;' HTH, Patrick Brian Dessent schrieb: zzapper wrote: Peter, cpan cpan> How do you list modules already installed? There's no definitive way to do this. If you just want to see if you have the Foo::Bar module, you can use "perl -MFoo::B

Re: Perl CPAN module help

2003-11-14 Thread Patrick Eisenacher
man CPAN has this to offer: # list all modules on my disk that have newer versions on CPAN for $mod (CPAN::Shell->expand("Module","/./")){ next unless $mod->inst_file; next if $mod->uptodate; printf "Module %s is installed as %s, could be updated to %s from C PAN\n", $mod->id, $mod->inst_ver

Re: Perl CPAN module help

2003-11-13 Thread Doug VanLeuven
Brian Dessent wrote: How do you list modules already installed? There's no definitive way to do this. If you just want to see if you have the Foo::Bar module, you can use "perl -MFoo::Bar -e 1" and if you get an error then you need to install Foo::Bar. You can also try the following script whic

Re: Perl CPAN module help

2003-11-13 Thread Brian Dessent
zzapper wrote: > > Peter, > > >cpan > cpan> > > How do you list modules already installed? There's no definitive way to do this. If you just want to see if you have the Foo::Bar module, you can use "perl -MFoo::Bar -e 1" and if you get an error then you need to install Foo::Bar. You can also

Re: Perl CPAN module help

2003-11-13 Thread zzapper
Peter, >cpan cpan> How do you list modules already installed? zzapper -- vim -c ":%s/^/WhfgTNabgureRIvzSUnpxre/|:%s/[R-T]/ /Ig|:normal ggVGg?" http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=305 Best of Vim Tips -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

RE: Perl CPAN module help

2003-11-13 Thread Peter J. Acklam
"Gary Nielson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I tried installing several perl modules today, but make test >failed on several in the LWP package and for HTML::Parser >etc. Couldn't find modules I'd already installed in the INC >path. That's strange. Which module is not found? Since you have instal

Perl CPAN module help

2003-11-12 Thread Gary Nielson
I tried installing several perl modules today, but make test failed on several in the LWP package and for HTML::Parser etc. Couldn't find modules I'd already installed in the INC path. With HTML::Parser it couldn't run gcc because it was not found. How do you use CPAN under cygwin? Is there a web p