begin ALLO (Alfredo Lopez) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I found out that according to one of the Bioinformatics wizards at Cold > Spring Harbor the problem is Perl: > > "This problem has been reported under some versions of SuSE and RedHat Linux > (it appears to be related to a particular RPM distribution of Perl). Perl > was built incorrectly, causing some but not all loadable modules to fail. > The only solution I know of is to rebuild Perl correctly from scratch and > reinstall all previously-installed modules." their explanation doesn't say much, but it DOES say that the problem ain't perl. the problem is with suse and redhat's package of perl.
> Has anybody experienced this? Is there a way to get around this other than > building Perl. I don't know but for an inexperienced user like me, > rebuilding Perl is not a trivial exercise. and how do you know this...experience? how do you know that building perl isn't as easy as: tar jxvf perl.tar.bz2 cd perl ./configure make make install > BTY I am using the latest > version of Caldera (Workstation 3.1) and I am getting next Friday a copy of > RedHat 7.2. But I am almost sure 7.2 will have the same problem. something is terribly wrong here. you're not willing to install perl from source code, but you ARE willing to install a new operating system. do you see the irony here? :-) pete ps- if you still think installing an operating system is easier than installing perl from source, i think your best recourse is to install debian. _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech