Joe Smith said:
> I tried to build the beta - it fails immediately, needing ExtUtils::Depends.
um... don't use the BETA packages from my homepage --- use the released 0.20
ones from sourceforge.
the Glib-Perl package should install ExtUtils::Depends ---- Gtk2-Perl requires
Glib-Perl to be installed first.
> I try running CPAN shell, which goes off re-installing itself and updating
> the several DOZENs of modules it depends on. Since CPAN.pm requires root
> perms, lord only knows what the hell it's doing to my system. I finally
> panic and kill it as it's running tests on
> Archive::tar -- yeesh!
there are ways to configure CPAN to install to your home directory. i saw it
the other day, i think in the manpage for cpan2rpm, which i was reading to
find out how to package this stuff in rpms. ;-) just search google for it.
> Can Gtk2-Perl include ExtUtils::Depends, or is an installed
> Gtk-Perl-0.7008 a well-known requirement?
it's actually not installed with Gtk-Perl-0.7008, from what i can tell --- all
the modules in the source tree refer to it by hard-coded relative paths.
like i said, it's installed with Glib-Perl, but the debian packages that were
mentioned on the list last week don't include it. i imagine you didn't
install the Glib-Perl module first. i'm sorry the error message isn't more
explicit, but i don't know how to trap a failed 'use'.
the README in the toplevel of the unpackaged archives briefly tells you how to
go about making a non-root install.
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muppet <scott at asofyet dot org>
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