At 3:51 PM -0600 10/16/06, Mark Berryman wrote: >More and more of the modules I need to install in Perl generate a message >similar to the following: > >$ perl makefile.pl >==> ExtUtils::AutoInstall 0.52 required. Install it from CPAN? [Y/n] > >If I understand correctly, this is a module that automatically installs >dependencies from CPAN, which currently does not work in VMS. What options do >I have to get such modules installed (I'd do them manually if I knew how).
The documentation for ExtUtils::AutoInstall describes options for checking dependencies without taking action and for skipping dependencies entirely. It may be possible to do something like $ perl Makefile.PL --checkdeps manually install everything it says you need, then $ perl Makefile.PL --skipdeps Things might be a bit worse than that, though. Based on the message you got, you may well have a bootstrap version of ExtUtils::AutoInstall that only knows enough to try to download the latest version of itself, except I doubt it really can do that. You could try to install it manually in the build directory of the extenstion you are trying to build by downloading it independently and putting it under inc/ExtUtils/AutoInstall.pm. I've never tried what I'm describing, just speculating based on the docs at: http://search.cpan.org/~autrijus/ExtUtils-AutoInstall-0.63/lib/ExtUtils/AutoInstall.pm -- ________________________________________ Craig A. Berry mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "... getting out of a sonnet is much more difficult than getting in." Brad Leithauser
