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Ahh....at least its not just me making another clueless mistake
this time....:-)...
Thanks!
-linda
> -----Original Message-----
> From: k@k242.linux.bogus [mailto:k@k242.linux.bogus] On
> Behalf Of Andreas J. Koenig
> Sent: March 02, 2003 12:42a
> To: linda w.
> Cc: perl5-porters@perl.org; ashted@cpan.org
> Subject: Re: CPAN usage question....apropos?
>
>
> >>>>> On Sat, 1 Mar 2003 19:53:05 -0800, "linda w."
> <perl-diddler@tlinx.org> said:
>
> > Not sure if this is the right forum for this,
>
> Normally the author of a module decides which forum to use for
> discussion. In this case it's probably OK to bother us because the bug
> may be related to perl directly. CC'd to ashted@cpan.org, the author
> of Devel::SmallProf to hear his opinion.
>
> > so have patience,
> > But just started trying the CPAN shell last
> night...exploring around.
> > (looking for a way to instrument a program by-line instead of by
> > proc)...I ran into a module that required module "DB"
> > (http://search.cpan.org/author/JHI/perl-5.8.0/lib/DB.pm).
>
> > Thing is, the CPAN shell seems to not recognize its existance.
> > Try looking under author as well...no such luck.
>
> DB is not a module, it's a namespace reserved for the Perl debugger.
> Profilers usually hook into this namespace.
>
> > Is there something special about this module such that it
> would not
> > appear in CPAN? When I tried to build a module that depended on
> > it (Devel-smallprof), I got errors about it not existing
> on my machine.
>
> Confirmed. 'make test' on Devel::SmallProf 0.9 fails miserably. Bugs
> on CPAN modules should be reported to rt.cpan.org and apparently
> somebody has reported this bug 9 months ago.
>
http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=768
> Am I missing something obvious other than manual download of the source
> and macking it is somewhere in the include path?
> Perhaps am confused, but isn't that what the cpan-shell is supposed
> to do for me?
The cpan shell can install properly declared prerequisites for you but
it cannot fix bugs in modules. Devel::SmallProf passes all its tests
with perl-5.6.1 but not with 5.8. I do not know why.
--
andreas
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