From:	Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Perl and Perldoc
Date:	Thu, 27 Mar 2003 10:09:58 +0000
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Hello.

Ian wrote:
>   I've got some more time to look into perl and I've downloaded Perl 5.8.0
> over Perl 5.6.1.  I ran the command from bash
> 
> Perldoc -f perlfork and this is the result.
> 
> Can't locate Pod/ParseLink.pm in @INC (@INC contains: e:/djgpp/lib/perl5
> e:/djgpp/lib/perl5/site e:/djgpp/lib/perl5/site c:/dj204/lib/perl5/site .)
> at e:/djgpp/lib/perl5/Pod/Text.pm line 30.

Does Pod/ParseLink.pm exist in any of the directories listed?

Andrew (Cottrell), if you're reading this: How did you build the packages of
Perl 5.8.0? For Perl 5.6.1 I had to hack the install scripts, to get it to put
the files somewhere other than /dev/env/DJDIR (e.g.: my packaging directory
/temp/distmake/perl561b). I also had to install with FNCASE=y, IIRC.

> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at e:/djgpp/lib/perl5/Pod/Text.pm line 30.
> 
> Compilation failed in require at e:/djgpp/bin/perldoc line 176.
[snip]

The port of Perl 5.8.0 has not been tested very much. For instance, I don't
know if it has the bugfixes that I have made for 5.6.1. I had a brief play
with it and it hung in its test suite, so there are definitely problems there.

You may wish to downgrade to 5.6.1.

Bye, Rich =]

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Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ]

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