Re: glitched install of mod_perl (1.99.08)

Stephen Clouse wrote:
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> On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 06:25:26PM +1100, Stas Bekman wrote:
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> > Hmm, you have perl 5.8.0. How is it possible that you don't have CGI.pm, 
> > which is a part of the core?
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> It's probably a perl installed from a vendor-supplied package.  You'd be amazed
> at the shreds the standard Perl distribution can get ripped to.
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> Redhat I know splits a standard Perl installation into no less than 20 packages. 
> CGI,pm and friends get shoved off off into their own RPM (perl-CGI).  Other
> Linux distros I can't speak for but they tend to be similar.
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> In short, don't assume that their kit is complete.  Their vendor may have done
> them a "favor" via package management.

I wonder what would be the best way to handle that, require CGI.pm for 
installing mod_perl or simply adjust the tests to skip, if it's not available.
It's just silly that we rely on the knowledge that certain modules are a part 
of the core, and the vendors break that assumption :(

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