[Slashcode-general] Forging right ahead...

[Phil R. <pr...@dn...>]

Well, after the last problem seemed to go away (I went ahead and finished 
the Apache installation, and it seems to be working correctly), I've been 
madly installing and reinstalling Perl modules. I finally got to the point 
of installing Bundle::Slash, and after a couple of tries, I am now 
consistently getting this from CPAN:

    Bundle summary: The following items in bundle Bundle::Slash had 
installation problems:
      Bundle::CPAN DBI DBI::FAQ Bundle::DBD::mysql Apache::Cookie Template and
      the following items had problems during recursive bundle calls:
      Bundle::libnet DBD::mysql Mysql Net::Telnet

So much scrolls past that I couldn't begin to tell what in particular fails 
(can somebody tell me how to capture the output from CPAN?). How many of 
these are important?

Picking one that looks needed, I decided to force install DBD::mysql just 
to see what happens. It failed, apparently looking for something related to 
DBI. So, I force installed DBI, and *IT* fails, with

    make: *** No rule to make target `blib/arch/auto/DBI/Driver.xst', 
needed by `Perl.xsi'.  Stop.

Hmmm. Dig around. Maybe I should be installing Bundle::DBI? Well, it can't 
hurt. When I try that, it runs for a while and then I get the same failure. 
Hmm. Have I stumbled on a real bug?

So. Is this part really necessary for Slashcode? If so, then how did 
anybody else get it installed?


(And how the hell do you tell CPAN to quit trying to reinstall Perl? I'm 
already running the current version 5.6.1. Half my time yesterday was spent 
installing modules, then finally installing Perl 5.6.1 because stuff kept 
trying to install it, then discovering that reinstalling Perl wiped out all 
the modules so trying to get them reinstalled. Then stupid Data::Dumper 
kept on trying to recursively install Perl again. This is getting to be as 
bad as trying to figure out Microsoft service packs.)

Moderately frustrated,

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                                              ...phil

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