At 07:43 AM 11/15/00 -0500, Charles Lane wrote:
>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.
Yup, that was it. CPAN's not doing dependency checking for some odd reason,
but other than that it's working fine. I'm going to see about getting the
VMS:: modules packaged up properly now.
Dan
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