[Chicago-talk] Help CPAN on FreeBSD Perl 5.8.8

[Mike Fragassi]

On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, Ed Pigg wrote:

> Now CPAN (1.90) is throwing errors and I'm having a hard time trying
> to figure out how to remedy them.
>
> Here's a typical error message from an install command
>
> cpan[2]> install CPAN
> Running install for module 'CPAN'
> Running make for A/AN/ANDK/CPAN-1.91.tar.gz
> CPAN: Digest::SHA loaded ok (v5.44)
> Catching error: 'Can't locate object method "prefs_lookup" via
> package "CPAN::HandleConfig" at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/CPAN.pm
> line 6564.
> ' at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/CPAN.pm line 274
>         CPAN::shell() called at -e line 1
>
>
> I've looked at CPAN::HandleConfig and there is no "prefs_lookup" sub
> in the module.

In CPAN 1.90, there should be one. See:
http://search.cpan.org/src/ANDK/CPAN-1.90/lib/CPAN/HandleConfig.pm

It's the last sub in the file.

> I thought that I'd reinstall CPAN from the ports
> collection, but it doesn't appear to be there. Just CPANPLUS. Should
> I fetch CPAN from CPAN and install manually? Is this a change from
> 5.8.7 to 5.8.8?

I don't see why installing manually would be a problem, unless you've 
got special values for makepl_arg etc. in your CPAN 
Config.pm/MyConfig.pm.

I'd check to confirm that your current version of CPAN is installed 
correctly and completely.  Ditto for your new version of Perl.

-- Mike F.