perl irritations

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 07:43 -0500, mark wrote:
> Herta Van den Eynde wrote:
> > On 06/09/2007, mark <m.roth2006 at rcn.com> wrote:
> >> Well, this is irritating.
> >>
> >> I've got, as I've mentioned, an RH 9 box as a firewall router. I just tried to
> >> install CPAN, and it croaks. perl 5.8.1 is installed, as is perl-core. But the
> >> install fails, complaining it can't find header files in
> >> /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.1/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/
> >>
> >> So, why aren't they there, and what do I need to install to get them there? I
> >> don't really think I should be doing things like
> >>   cp /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/perl.h \
> >>      /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.1/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/
> >>
> >>         mark
> > 
> > perl.h is part of the perl package.  You can easily check with 'rpm
> > -qil perl |grep perl.h'.
> > So it sounds like your install failed.  What does 'rpm -V perl' return?
> 
> Better than that - I got perl-5.8.1-0.RC4.3.3.92mdk.i586.rpm and perl-base 
> (etc).rpm, and neither has the header files.
> 
> Back to finding an actual release, instead of a half-a**ed one.

Did you install perl-devel?

In F7:

$ locate perl.h
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/perl.h
/usr/share/doc/db4-devel-4.5.20/ref/ext/perl.html
$ rpm -qf /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/perl.h
perl-devel-5.8.8-18.fc7

My guess is that the -devel package split goes back as far as your
version.

> 
> 	mark
> 
> 
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                Matthew Saltzman

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