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Tels
Date:
April 1, 2007 11:23
Subject:
Re: upgrading Math::BigInt
Message ID:
200704012022.28587@bloodgate.com
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Moin,

On Sunday 01 April 2007 16:57:17 hv@crypt.org wrote:
> Over a freshly built and installed perl-5.9.4, I wanted to upgrade to the
> latest MBI and related modules.
>
> After building and installing Math-BigInt-1.81.tar.gz in the usual way,
> I went to install Math-BigInt-FastCalc-0.12.tar.gz (as required), but
> it complained that:
>   Warning: prerequisite Math::BigInt 1.79 not found. We have 1.770.
>
> It turns out that Math::BigInt v1.81 has been installed to site_perl,
> so the older bundled version is still visible.
>
> I checked bleadperl, and it appears to do the same, but I assume that
> in any case it is the MBI distribution that should change to cater for
> this.

Yeah, the problem is I switched to Module::Install for 1.81, and the 
Makefile:PL uses an unofficial method to set the install dirs. And it turns 
out this was borkend. I switched to the now officially supported and 
working method and will release it as v1.82 soon.

All the best,

Tels

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