[arch-general] Something Broken with Perl!

[Florian Pritz]

On 01.07.2011 21:24, Steve Holmes wrote:
> 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?

cpanp is the command (short for cpanplus) and the package you need is
called perl-cpanplus-dist-arch.

-- 
Florian Pritz

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