perl and cpan
Nik Clayton
nik at freebsd.org
Mon Sep 30 20:09:42 BST 2002
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On Monday, September 30, 2002, at 10:01 AM, Ian Morrison wrote:
> as i'm not a perl bunny, and just wanted a quick fix i did a:
>
> # perl -MCPAN -e shell
> # install IPC::Open3
In general, if you do this on FreeBSD the CPAN modules will
*automatically* register themselves in /var/db/pkg, and can be
manipulated with the pkg_* tools. This piece of magic is brought to
you by the BSDPAN modules
> and after some downloading, it started trying to build perl5.8 and
> putting it in /usr/local ...
That's probably to do with your choice of module, and/our the way the
CPAN module is configured. I've had a quick look on CPAN, and
IPC::Open3 is listed under the Perl 5.8.0 section, so it's reasonable
that CPAN.pm will try and installed Perl 5.8.0 as a pre-requisite.
The easiest way to work around this is probably to download the .tar.gz
files for modules yourself, extract them, and run
/usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL
make all install
instead. There's a CPAN.pm option you can set (probably
'prerequisites_policy') that controls this.
N
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