RE: [Slashcode-general] Probs w/ Install RH 6.2 and 7.0

[Chris N. <pu...@po...>]

At 08:57 -0800 2001.03.01, Mike Gholson wrote:
>Yes, after installing expat, things moved forward.  But, I don't
>remember seeing a section about the manual install of expat in the
>installation instructions.  I'm using a combination of two instructions
>- one from the tarball distribution and the other from bender.  I
>definately like the bender-install method.

It is in the bender INSTALL.  It is under REQUIREMENTS.  Grep for "expat"
if you don't believe me.  :-)  I've added a note under the section
describing the CPAN installation to remind you to look at REQUIREMENTS.


>This leads me to the next question.
>
>Why two installations?  Why doesn't slash come default with the source
>code for all installations?  Seems like that would be easier to support.

I am not sure what you are referring to by "two installations".


>> This may be better explained in the INSTALL docs (including URLs for
>> expat), while we wait for major distributions to include it
>> by default, if ever.
>---------------
>
>My lack of understanding about the distribution process through CPAN
>prevents me from coming up with a valid point on this.  But, what does
>it take to add something like this to your Bundle::Slash module?

It cannot be done, unless I write my own module that builds and installs
expat, which I am not going to do.  :)

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