Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>Well, I finally bit the bullet and installed 5.6.0 with Chuck's patches,
>along with his modified version of CPAN 1.54. I've also installed the
>latest Libnet and MD5, to make CPAN happy. Unfortunately it's not working,
>and Odd Things Are Happening.
>
>More specifically, when going to do an install, the archive is fetched and
>uncompressed OK, but instead of untarring it, the tar file's spat out to
>the screen. Needless to say the build doesn't get too far after that,
>though CPAN thinks it does.
>
>Before I go digging into this a bit, has anyone come across this? And, more
>importantly, anyone got a solution?
I held off answering for a bit to see if anyone else had come across the
same problem, because it looked superficially like a TAR problem.
But this morning I realized that your problem may well not be a TAR but
a GZIP problem. Did you grab the modified GZIP from the same page that
the CPAN stuff was located? It's down at the bottom of
http://www.crinoid.com/perl560.htmlx
so it's unfortunately easy to miss.
Here's the difficulty: "standard" GZIP on VMS doesn't handle i/o indirection.
So when CPAN requests:
$GZIP -dc SOME-CPAN-STUFF.TAR-GZ >SOME-CPAN-STUFF.TAR
the unzipped output will go to SYS$OUTPUT unless GZIP knows how to redirect.
I made a slightly modified version that does redirect (& submitted changes
to the GNU people, who've apparantly dropped 'em into a black hole). See
if it doesn't fix your problem.
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