From: Richard Dawe Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Perl and Perldoc Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 10:09:58 +0000 Lines: 34 Message-ID: <3E82CDF6.8F9308E4@phekda.freeserve.co.uk> References: <5lKfa.2484$FO3 DOT 232903 AT news20 DOT bellglobal DOT com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.136.67.65 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: newsg3.svr.pol.co.uk 1048765899 30700 62.136.67.65 (27 Mar 2003 11:51:39 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: 27 Mar 2003 11:51:39 GMT X-Complaints-To: abuse AT theplanet DOT net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.23 i586) X-Accept-Language: de,fr To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com 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 =] -- Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ]