From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: perl testing
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 10:02:17 +0100
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Hello.

Ian wrote:
>     I've installed the binary port of perl5.6.1 and I'm having no end of
> frustration with cpan.  I skipped cpan and downloaded the tarball of DBI and
> unpacked it with winzip 8 okay. perl Makefile.PL gave me errors and I'd like
> to know how to test perl itself (not DBI)?  There somewhere is a script that
> I can run which tests the perl installation.  Any pointers would be a great
> help in figuring out where I've messed up.

If you posted some error messages, that might help diagnose what's up.

I don't know of any tests to check the Perl installation. Perhaps using
autoconf or automake would be a good test. Or you could try something like
this from bash:

    echo foo > t.t
    perl -e 'use FileHandle; $fh = new FileHandle("<t.t"); while (<$fh>) {
print; } $fh->close();'

The perl command should all be on one line. It should display "foo". Maybe if
there was a problem with extracting the Perl distribution, you will get an
error. (FileHandle.pm does not fit exactly into 8+3, so this may highlight any
problems with extraction of the Perl binary archive.)

Regards,

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