[arch-general] Something Broken with Perl!

[Steve Holmes]

On 7/1/11, Florian Pritz <bluewind at xinu.at> wrote:
> On 01.07.2011 14:38, Steve Holmes wrote:
>> I still can't compile perl-moose but I get another lookup error so I
>> rebuilt the package that owns the library causing the error but still
>> no go.  At least automake works so I can build other packages.  I have
>> never seen such a colamity of errors with changes to perl though.
>>
>> I guess I will post a bug report to the perl-moose package in AUR to
>> see how to resolve it.  I'm not heavy waited enough in perl to be able
>> track down these root causes without some help from my friends:).
>
> `cpanp i Moose` works fine here.
>
> IMHO you should install perl-cpanpplus-dist-arch (run setupdistarch as
> your user afterwards) and use cpanp to generate and install pacman perl
> packages. It's way easier to use than AUR.
>
> This is what I did:
> pacman -Qm | grep "^perl-" > perlpkgs
> pacman -Rcs $(<perlpkgs)
> use cpanp to reinstall everything in perlpkgs that you still need
>
> --
> Florian Pritz
>
>
Hey, that sounds like an excellent alternative.  That day I setup
perl-net-twitter, I think I had to install over 30 dependencies before
the day was done!  Is this cpanp package also available in AUR or is
this something separate?