[log4perl-devel] =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Re: Log4perl on Windows using AS 5.8 beta =A0?=

[Duncan C. <dca...@bc...>]

Mike Schilli wrote:

>> I have the beta of 5.8 from ActiveState running on my pc. When I run
>> the Log4perl ppm install one liner I get this:
>> 
>> C:\>ppm install "http://log4perl.sourceforge.net/ppm/Log-Log4perl.ppd"
>> Error: no suitable installation target found for package Log-Log4perl.
>>
> I assume it needs to be updated for 5.8?  Interesting. Do you know by any chance what could be causing it to
> succeed on ActiveState 5.6.1 and fail on 5.8.0? Could this be a 5.8.0
> bug? Or a format change in PPD? I'll keep investigating ...

I would guess it's the ARCHITECTURE element in the ppd file.
That's where ppd files for 5.6 differ to 5.5. It looks as if you
can change it to be "MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-5.8", see the
following:

http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/web/182/0/10120619/

Regards,
Duncan Cameron