From: "Ian" <Ian AT junk DOT net>
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Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 10:59:34 -0500
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"Richard Dawe" <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk> wrote in message
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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?

No.  I found it in e:\Perl\perl5.8.0\lib\Pod
perl -v return 5.8.0 so I unzipped it under e:\djgpp okay.
it looks like this is the cause ,  Please what should I do?
    Regards Ian.
>
> 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/ ]