[misterhouse-users] Upgraded Perl, now MH doesnt work.....

[Chris H. <chr...@op...>]

Just went through an upgrade to Perl (from 5.6 to 5.8) and added in the GD module so I can get those cool on the fly png images :)  but now MH in general will not work.

It starts up fine, and any non-X10 functionality is there (mail, weather, TV, etc), but when I try to use any X10Items nothing happens.  However, during startup Im getting the following message (which I believe is the problem):

Device::Serial could not find ioctl definitions!

and then later:

disabling ioctl methods - constants not found

Searching dejanews.com and other sources reveals I need to install the Device::Serial package.  When I goto CPAN to try and install it, I get the following (after just trying to run Makefile.PL):

Device::Serial could not find ioctl definitions!
Perl did not find any .ph files to get at least the following ioctls:
        TIOCMBIS
        TIOCMBIC
        TIOCMGET
        CRTSCTS
Please check your Perl installation, or read 'man h2ph'.  As root, you may
need to run:
        cd /usr/include; h2ph -r -l .
before the Perl *.ph files will work

Ive done what it suggested (i.e. I now have all the .ph files), but I still get the same error.

Has anyone gone through this before?  Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!!!
-Chris