Michael G Schwern wrote:
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).
Fix it? What's broken about it on VMS? There's a distinct lack of VMS bug
reports in its bug queue and I have a commit bit.
http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=ExtUtils-AutoInstall
Otherwise the META.yml file will list a module's dependencies for manual
installation.
Determining a module's dependencies is not the problem. In fact, I had
already installed all of this particular module's dependencies before I
even attempted to install the module. Attempting to install the module
results in the following:
$ perl makefile.pl
==> ExtUtils::AutoInstall 0.52 required. Install it from CPAN? [Y/n] n
Can't locate ExtUtils/AutoInstall.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
perl_root:[lib.
VMS_AXP.5_8_6] perl_root:[lib] perl_root:[lib.site_perl.VMS_AXP]
perl_root:[lib.
site_perl] /perl_root/lib/site_perl .) at makefile.pl line 34, <STDIN>
line 1.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at makefile.pl line 46, <STDIN> line 1.
%SYSTEM-W-NOSUCHFILE, no such file
$
Obviously, I can't install it directly from CPAN so I download it and
attempt to install it myself. I fetch the version available on CPAN and:
$ cd extutils-autoinstall-0_63
$ perl makefile.pl
Can't locate object method "new" via package
"Module::Install::autoinstall" (per
haps you forgot to load "Module::Install::autoinstall"?) at
inc/Module/Install.p
m - /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/Module/Install.pm line 269.
%SYSTEM-F-ABORT, abort
$
This was all encountered on a vanilla install of the HP 5.8.6 kit.
Mark Berryman
