[log4perl-devel] Re: Log4perl on Windows using AS 5.8 beta

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> 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:
> <A HREF="http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/web/182/0/10120619/">http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/web/182/0/10120619/</A>

Thanks for the hint! I've done some more investigation on this and it seems 
like "ppm" is totally broken in Activestate 5.8.0 beta.

Here's what I tried:

* Calling "ppm" results in "bad command or filename"

* Calling "ppm3" results in "bad command or filename"

* "ppm2" actually seems to work. 

It serves up the "ppm>" command prompt, which, when I entered

    ppm> <A HREF="http://log4perl.sourceforge.net/ppm/Log-Log4perl.ppd">http://log4perl.sourceforge.net/ppm/Log-Log4perl.ppd</A>

contacted the server, fetched the "ppd" file, but choked:

    Read a PPD for '"http://log4perl.sourceforge.net/ppm/Log-Log4perl.ppd"', 
but
    it is not intended for this build of Perl (MSWin32-x86-multi-thread)

So, according to Duncan's suggestion, I changed the line

    ARCHITECTURE NAME="MSWin32-x86-multi-thread"

in the above mentioned *.ppd file to

    ARCHITECTURE NAME="MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-5.8"

stored it in

    <A HREF="http://log4perl.sourceforge.net/ppm/Log-Log4perl-58.ppd">http://log4perl.sourceforge.net/ppm/Log-Log4perl-58.ppd</A>

and ran it again. This time, it actually fetched the referenced tarball, 
installed it (although it muttered something about "Duplicate POD found"),  
but missed the dependencies, because it doesn't notice that Log::Log4perl 
depends on Log::Dispatch as indicated by

    DEPENDENCY NAME="Log-Dispatch" VERSION="2,0,0,0" 

in the *.ppd file. Next try was to manually install Log::Dispatch:

    ppm> install Log::Dispatch

but that failed (although it works with ActiveState perl 5.6.1), saying it 
can't find it.

Does anybody know how to resolve these issue or how to contact Activestate 
about it? Seems like my emails to their perl-win32-users mailing list are 
silently discarded.

--- Mike

Mike Schilli
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