Re: How to install modules that aren't available in ActiveState's repository?

2003-11-11 Thread Greg Matheson
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Lynn. Rickards wrote: > Checking the buildstatus pages on http://ppm.activestate.com there appear to > be more XML modules built for 5.6 than 5.8. May be worth stepping back if you > have 5.8... There are a lot of modules there. There are about 5,000 links each on http://ppm.

Re: How to install modules that aren't available in ActiveState's repository?

2003-11-11 Thread Randy Kobes
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Gary Nielson wrote: > For example, today I went to download XML-SAX-Machines and > XML-LibXML using ppm in XP. Neither one was there or > complete as in: > > ppm> install XML-SAX-Machines > Error: PPD for 'XML-SAX-Machines.ppd' could not be found. > ppm> install XML-LibXML >

RE: How to install modules that aren't available in ActiveState's repository?

2003-11-11 Thread Lynn. Rickards
perl -MCPAN -e "install XML::SAX::Machines"   There is a ton of dependencies and you will need either to ppm those with XS content first (hope they're all available...) or have MSVC installed to compile the DLLs.   Checking the buildstatus pages on http://ppm.activestate.com there appea

Re: File handles and strict pragma

2003-11-11 Thread Glenn Linderman
The filehandle CAN be a variable... introduced in Perl 5.6? Or was it 5.8? sub bin_urls { foreach (@alpha) { $temp = "> $_.out"; open ($fh, $temp); print $fh "Delete the file and replace it with this line"; close($fh); } } This was likely added to Perl due to

Re: How to install modules that aren't available in ActiveState's repository?

2003-11-11 Thread Trevor Joerges
Gary,   Download the modules from CPAN and try compiling them using nmake for Windows which is freely available off Microsoft's site. Do the normal:   perl Makefile.PL nmake nmake test nmake install   If the module is tested on Win32 it should be fine but modules built specifically for UNIX

Re: software.log problem

2003-11-11 Thread Darragh O'Brien
I have noticed that when I simply execute a Perl script outside of a browser it successfully connects to my Access database and retrieves data. On running the same script within the browser it fails to connect. I guess it must be a permissions problem i.e. although I am allowed to connect, create