[Pdx-pm] new error from old program

[Roderick A. Anderson]

Eric Wilhelm wrote:
> # from Roderick A. Anderson
> # on Thursday 09 April 2009 18:40:
> 
>>  From a reply to a posting by me back in December 2007 chromatic said
>>
>> Somehow, your Perl installation is finding the pure-Perl version of
>> Scalar::Util.  You need the XS version.
> 
> Right.  Now just in case you like to take things apart and see how they 
> work...

Thanks Erik.  I'll file this for next time I'm in that mode/mood.


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Rod
-- 
> 
> In general, you might be able to check this sort of thing like so:
> 
>   perl -MScalar::Util -e 'warn @DynaLoader::dl_modules'
> 
> Then, you should have an 'auto' directory in the corresponding @INC tree 
> here where the binary can be found.
> 
>   perl -MScalar::Util -e 'warn $INC{"List/Util.pm"}'
> 
> e.g.
>   /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8/List/Util.pm
>   /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8/auto/List/Util/Util.so
> 
> 
> (On a Mac, that's going to be auto/List/Util/Util.dylib.)
> 
> 
> Or, if you have Module::ScanDeps installed, just:
> 
>  scandeps.pl -V -e 'use Scalar::Util'
> 
> Which will give you lots of output including
> 
>   # auto/List/Util/Util.so [shared]
>   ...
>   # Legend: [C]ore [X]ternal [S]ubmodule [?]NotOnCPAN
>   'List::Util'   => '0', #  X   # Scalar::Util
> 
> And you see the 'X', which means XS.
> 
> --Eric