[kw-pm] Question regarding cpan

[Eric Maki]

Hard to be a lot of help without all the information.  A quick 
peek in ExtUtils reveals that the next line after that initial 
warning would say what the actual arch mismatch is believed to 
be.  And then somewhere in those dots would be the actual error 
for the make.

But, even with everything carved out, seems likely that you have 
one perl in your path, but a PERL5LIB for a different perl.

Is this your server?  If so, get rid of one of the Perls.

If it isn't, compare 'perl -V' with your environment. What does 
"perl -MConfig -le 'print $Config{archlibexp}'" print?  What 
about "perldoc -l Config"?

cpan isn't magic, it's not going to be able to figure out how to 
deal with entangled conflicting versions of Perl.  If you can 
start fresh, you will be happier.  If -you- aren't sure which 
perl is running and should be running, cpan is SOL.

fishbot

---- original message : 2008-11-11 12:23pm : Robert Pike ----

> I'm trying to run cpan from the command prompt to try and 
> install Date::Calc but part of the message I get back is this :
> ...
> ...
> Have P:\Perl-5.8\lib\Config.pm expected C:\Perl\lib\Config.pm
> Your perl and your Config.pm seem to have different ideas about the
> architecture they are running on.
> ...
> ...
> Running make test
>  Can't test without successful make
> Running make install
>  Make had returned bad status, install seems impossible
> Failed during this command:
> STBEY/Date-Calc-5.4.tar.gz                   : make NO
>
> I noticed that on the server there are 2 directories -> C:/Perl 
> and C:/Perl-5.8 (the first I believe is version 5.0 while the 
> latter is 5.8). Does anyone have any suggestions to what I can 
> try to successfully install Date::Calc? Appreciate any help. 
> Thanks.
>
>
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