Re: CPAN sticklers

2002-04-03 Thread Puneet Kishor
nope, I can't either... stuck with older versions of DB_File, Net::Ping, Pod::Latex, and a few more. And these are besides the about 145 or so "without a parseable version number." I also experienced a weird CRC problem with the modules list once... changing the URLs of repositories seemed to

[OT] Question for someone managing this list

2002-04-03 Thread Kee Hinckley
The perl.org mail/list server is inserting a really bizarre Received: header, which happens to be fouling up my spam detection software (it sees an illegal date and assumes it's spam). Obviously I need to deal with it, but it still might a good idea to fix it. Received: from cis.usouthal.edu

CPAN sticklers

2002-04-03 Thread Bruce A. Burdick, Jr.
The CPAN shell can't seem to get past upgrading a few modules on my Pismo 400. Anyone able to get these working? : DB_File, Image::Magick, Net::Ping, Pod::LaTeX. DB_File 1.751.803 P/PM/PMQS/DB_File-1.803.tar.gz Interesting output: Note (probably harmless): No library found f

Re: [Fink-users] Re: is my perl tarnished?

2002-04-03 Thread Peter N Lewis
At 18:31 -0600 3/4/02, Chris Devers wrote: >So is it Storable.pm that's corrupted? Think it'll help to rebuild it? I have some memory of reading something where Storable was used with a lowercase s, and so it was loaded (successfully, because of the case insensitivity) and then not found next

Re: [Fink-users] Re: is my perl tarnished?

2002-04-03 Thread Chris Devers
On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Ken Williams wrote: > Nope, Storable is a regular CPAN module, not in the core: So you have written, so it has been done. After downloading & installing Storable.pm from CPAN, I've re-run fink selfupdate again. Snipping: Reading package info... loading libraries for im

Re: [Fink-users] Re: is my perl tarnished?

2002-04-03 Thread Ken Williams
On Thursday, April 4, 2002, at 10:40 AM, Chris Devers wrote: >loading libraries for image: >/Library/Perl/darwin/auto/Storable/Storable.bundle >dyld: perl5.6.0 Undefined symbols: >_PerlIO_getc >_PerlIO_putc >_Perl_PerlIO_read >_Perl_PerlIO_write >_Perl_sv_2pv_flags

Re: [Fink-users] Re: is my perl tarnished?

2002-04-03 Thread Chris Devers
On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Chris Devers wrote: > Cool, now we're getting somewhere... and just to bring things full circle, I've reproduced the error with Fink when dynamic load display is on, and got the same result: < again, lots of normal cvs output > Reading package info... lo

Re: [Fink-users] Re: is my perl tarnished?

2002-04-03 Thread Ken Williams
On Thursday, April 4, 2002, at 10:31 AM, Chris Devers wrote: >cpan> i LWP >loading libraries for image: > /Library/Perl/darwin/auto/Storable/Storable.bundle >dyld: perl5.6.0 Undefined symbols: >_PerlIO_getc >_PerlIO_putc >_Perl_PerlIO_read >_Perl_PerlIO_write >_Pe

Re: [Fink-users] Re: is my perl tarnished?

2002-04-03 Thread Chris Devers
On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Ken Williams wrote: > On Thursday, April 4, 2002, at 10:18 AM, Alexander Strange wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, April 3, 2002, at 06:55 PM, Ken Williams wrote: > >> Finkos, what's the proper way to increase verbosity, or hook into > >> $SIG{__DIE__}, to tell what module is the

Re: [Fink-users] Re: is my perl tarnished?

2002-04-03 Thread Ken Williams
On Thursday, April 4, 2002, at 10:18 AM, Alexander Strange wrote: > > On Wednesday, April 3, 2002, at 06:55 PM, Ken Williams wrote: >> Finkos, what's the proper way to increase verbosity, or hook into >> $SIG{__DIE__}, to tell what module is the problem? > > man dyld According to that man page,

Re: is my perl tarnished?

2002-04-03 Thread Chris Devers
On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Ken Williams wrote: > It's having trouble loading the binary part of some perl module. Well that's actually a pretty useful insight, thank you. I kept thinking it was some exotic condition within Perl itself, but was having a hard time thinking of what it could be & why it o

Re: is my perl tarnished?

2002-04-03 Thread Ken Williams
Chris, It's having trouble loading the binary part of some perl module. You can tell because of the "dyld:" bit. It doesn't say which module is the problem, though, but once you find it you should be able to just reinstall that module. Finkos, what's the proper way to increase verbosity, or

Re: HEAD to head (was Re: whoops)

2002-04-03 Thread Ken Williams
On Thursday, April 4, 2002, at 04:38 AM, PK Eidesis wrote: > (sorry Chris, you might get two copies of this... I forgot to put the > Subject in the first one so onion.perl.org sent it back to me... I would > like the answer to this, as well as have it archived in the mailing-list > archives. Henc

Re: mod_perl compile errors.

2002-04-03 Thread Mark Setzer
symptom of a bigger problem. all CPAN does is download and compile the same source that i was using, with fewer configuration options. i'd like to be able to freely configure mod_perl for use with my website. however. i force-installed Bundle::Apache, and httpd refuses to load. i'm not gettin

Re: is my perl tarnished?

2002-04-03 Thread Chris Devers
On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Chris Devers wrote: > [careful, cross-posted to two lists] Followup / footnote: Now when trying to run Fink's selfupdate, I get: [localhost Wed 5:01:46pm ~]% fink -y selfupdate < many, many normal output lines from the CVS synchronization > cvs server: Updatin

is my perl tarnished?

2002-04-03 Thread Chris Devers
[careful, cross-posted to two lists] Fink wants an update. I try to let it. Here's what I get: dpkg-deb -b root-fink-0.9.10-1 /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/base dpkg-deb: building package `fink' in `/sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/base/fink_0.9.10-1_darwi

Re: your mail

2002-04-03 Thread Chris Devers
On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, PK Eidesis wrote: > Chris Devers wrote: > > if I rename HEAD to lwp-head, then won't other Perl programs that depend > upon HEAD break? They will be looking for HEAD which is now lwp-head. Maybe, but I wouldn't worry about it. LWP's HEAD is an optional program that Perl deve

HEAD to head (was Re: whoops)

2002-04-03 Thread PK Eidesis
(sorry Chris, you might get two copies of this... I forgot to put the Subject in the first one so onion.perl.org sent it back to me... I would like the answer to this, as well as have it archived in the mailing-list archives. Hence, resending it) Chris Devers wrote: >> Btw, one quickie -- >> >

Re: Perl/Tk on Mac os X

2002-04-03 Thread Bill -Sx- Jones
Other possible site: http://tcl.activestate.com/community/sourceforge.html ??? -Sx- :] My new personal quote: Be alert! The world needs more Lerts! :)

Re: Perl/Tk on Mac os X

2002-04-03 Thread Rick Frankel
On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 09:57:48AM -0500, aaron wrote: > Hi All, > Does anyone have any updated information on perl/Tk for OS X? Most of my > stuff at work uses perl/Tk and I was over-joyed to install Tk on my Mac. To > my chagrin it crashes exactly like described below. Is there an OS

Re: whoops!

2002-04-03 Thread Puneet Kishor
thanks Chris, for a lovely explanation. This is the kind of explanation us MacOS-newbies understand. You should write a" Perl for MacOS X" book in the tradition of Randal's llama book. I'll buy it. Btw, one quickie -- > move the LWP head to a better name, let's say /usr/bin/lwp-head by LWP he

Re: whoops!

2002-04-03 Thread Chris Devers
On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Puneet Kishor wrote: > Question -- if/when I do find head on the OS X CD, where should I put > it? I can't put it back in /usr/bin because it will then overwrite HEAD > that is present there now, no? * Find it on the CD, let's say it's at /Volumes/MacOSX/usr/bin/head * mo

Re: Perl/Tk on Mac os X

2002-04-03 Thread aaron
Hi All, Does anyone have any updated information on perl/Tk for OS X? Most of my stuff at work uses perl/Tk and I was over-joyed to install Tk on my Mac. To my chagrin it crashes exactly like described below. Is there an OS X -compatible version available now? Does anyone know what

Re: whoops!

2002-04-03 Thread Puneet Kishor
Tim, Mark, Question -- if/when I do find head on the OS X CD, where should I put it? I can't put it back in /usr/bin because it will then overwrite HEAD that is present there now, no? corollary -- why is head so important? isn't it just the opposite of tail? I use tail once in a while, but un

Re: mod_perl compile errors.

2002-04-03 Thread Puneet Kishor
I have question (out of ignorance, if anything) -- why on earth would you want to build and compile mod_perl yourself, when you can let CPAN do all the nonsense? I let CPAN do it, and I am wondering if I missed out on something? Needless to say, I know diddly about build and make and -DUSE...

mod_perl compile errors.

2002-04-03 Thread Mark Setzer
One more, eh? Sorry if this is an already-answered question, but, I'm trying to compile mod_perl and have hit the following snag: env LD_RUN_PATH=/System/Library/Perl/darwin/CORE cc -c -I.. -I/System/Library/Perl/darwin/CORE -I../os/unix -I../include -DDARWIN -DMOD_PERL -DUSE_PERL_SSI -pipe

Re: whoops!

2002-04-03 Thread Tim Rayner
On Wednesday, April 3, 2002, at 11:07 am, Mark Setzer wrote: > Hey all, > > I think I was installing libwww from CPAN and mindlessly said yes to a > couple of optional installs. Seems it overwrote my /usr/bin/head with a > perl module to interpret http HEAD calls. > > Not fun! So I've had a he

whoops!

2002-04-03 Thread Mark Setzer
Hey all, I think I was installing libwww from CPAN and mindlessly said yes to a couple of optional installs. Seems it overwrote my /usr/bin/head with a perl module to interpret http HEAD calls. Not fun! So I've had a hell of a time looking for a source install, a package, something, somewhere