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. -- andreasThread Previous