On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Rainer Meier <r.me...@wpkg.org> wrote: > Hi Ari, > > On 31.03.2010 12:47, Ari Constancio wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm trying to install ActiveState Perl modules with WPKG, but can't >> seem to find the correct way to do it. >> >> Using 'ppm install perl::module>' on the CLI works locally. >> Using <install cmd="cmd /c ppm install perl-module.ppd" /> on >> packages.xml doesn't work. >> >> Any clues? > > Make sure cmd.exe is able to locate "ppm". Probably it's better to embedd the > "ppm install" line into a *.cmd script. Please also consider writing the > output > to NUL or during debug to a file. e.g. > <install cmd="cmd /c ppm install perl-module.ppd >c:\ppminstall.log 2>&1" > /> > > Then check the content of ppminstall.log. > > Such install tools are well known to print a huge amount of output. Remember > that there is an issue in WSH (interpreter of *.js scripts) which makes it > impossible to deal properly with output written to STDOUT. So if the output is > larger than 4kB your script will just "hang". > To prevent it you might have to redirect the output to NUL: > <install cmd="cmd /c ppm install perl-module.ppd >NUL 2>&1" /> > > br, > Rainer >
Rainer, thanks! I'll try your approach and see what happens. Ari Constancio ------------------------------------------------------------------------- wpkg-users mailing list archives >> http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/wpkg-users/ _______________________________________________ wpkg-users mailing list wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org http://lists.wpkg.org/mailman/listinfo/wpkg-users