[tpm] CPAN Recursive Dependencies

[Tom Legrady]

While you can use Perl -MCPAN -e'shell', you can also use the 'cpan command'
which includes -i install and -f force flags. So I would try

cpan -fi Test::Harness

The other option is to figure out where it stores that it should
automatically load dependencies, and disable that, so an install only
reports dependencies, rather than trying to install them.

I had no problems when I installed Bundle::CPAN a few weeks back ... but I
did have problems differentiating between the Perl5.10 I installed for my
own use, and the Perl5.8 Mac OSX uses



On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Quantum Mechanic <
quantum.mechanic.1964 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Mark Fowle <mfowle at navicominc.com> wrote:
>
>>  Run through each one at a time:
>>
>> File::Spec
>> Scalar::Util
>> Test::More
>> Test::Harness.
>>
>>  Thanks, good idea.
>
> I've been looking at my cpan config file, maybe I've specified the path to
> perl for makepl incorrectly. So the individual module would install, but the
> next one dependent on it wouldn't see it (PERL5LIB doesn't match makepl
> path?)
>
> About once a year I go through this, and recollection dawns on me after
> lots of hairpulling. I'm thinking "Surely this stuff is tested, right?", and
> it is. But the user isn't.
>
>
>
> --
> -QM
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