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Posted on Fri Nov 17 13:08:24 2006 by robertb
Error after CPAN installation
After a ruuning the command:
cpan Date::Calc
and answering yes to all questions, cpan ended with a panic error message after apparently installing correctly. Do I need to worry. Is it dangerous not to upgrade perl and cpan - everything else seems to be working fine?
: : Installing /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/Date/Calc/Obje ct.pod Installing /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/Date/Calc/Obje ct.pm Installing /usr/share/man/man3/Date::Calc::Object.3pm Installing /usr/share/man/man3/Date::Calc.3pm Installing /usr/share/man/man3/Date::Calendar.3pm Installing /usr/share/man/man3/Date::Calendar::Profiles.3pm Installing /usr/share/man/man3/Date::Calendar::Year.3pm Writing /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto/Date/Calc/.p acklist Appending installation info to /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/perl local.pod /usr/bin/make install -- OK CPAN.pm panic: deep recursion in color_cmd_tmps depth[100] self[CPAN::Module=HAS H(0xa9e7d84)] id[Carp::Clan][root@web2:/root]
My software versions:
# cpan -v cpan script version 1.01 CPAN.pm version 1.61 perl -V : : Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: DEBUGGING MULTIPLICITY USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT Locally applied patches: MAINT18379 Built under linux Compiled at May 19 2006 18:46:50 @INC: /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0
Many Thanks
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Posted on Fri Nov 17 13:52:44 2006 by jdhedden in response to 3567
Re: Error after CPAN installation
Of course, you want to upgrade! The newer version have fewer bugs. Upgrade Perl first, if possible. Then from the cpan prompt, run 'r' and upgrade all the modules listed to the latest versions, especially CPAN itself.
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