Problems with install of ExtUtil::MakeMaker which comes with MailScanner

[Glenn Steen]

On 30/06/07, Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com> wrote:
> Glenn Steen spake the following on 6/29/2007 1:20 PM:
> > On 29/06/07, Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
> > Well spotted. I have added it and it will be in the next release.
> >> Might this be the case for the rest of the "no build" ones? there were
> >> a handful of those, mostly either things that didn't matter (already
> >> had a version that newer/new enough)... Yeah, had to do an emergency
> >> rebuild yesterday evening/night... didn't have time to take any notes,
> >> so can't really say which it was... Built on Mdv -07.0.
> >> Since I'm officially on vacation now,i can't be more precise than that
> >> for a few weeks;-).
> >
> >> Cheers
> >> -- Glenn
> > Sean Coleman wrote:
> >> I have been attempting to install MailScanner 4.59 on a RedHat AS 4
> >> system running perl 5.8.5. I realize I can ignore all the errors
> >> produced by the compilation of MakeMaker and realize I don't need it
> >> since I have MakeMaker in my current perl but, I did figure out what
> >> caused the error. Setting PERL5LIB to perl -V | grep site_perl | tr -d
> >> ' ' | tr '\n' ':' causes the error. When I comment out the line, the
> >> build
> >> works fine. What was the intent to limit the perl library path using
> >> the PERL5LIB variable? When I ran the commands used to set PERL5LIB, I
> >> discovered that the variable included non path info such as:
> >
> >> config_args='-des ....'
> >> /usr/lib
> >
> >> I figured out that the definition of PERL5LIB needs one more grep
> >> added, grep -v config_args.
> >
> >> If you define PERL5LIB as follows, all will compile
> >
> >> PERL5LIB=`perl -V | grep site_perl | grep -v config_args | tr -d ' ' |
> >> tr '\n' ':'
> >
> >> Thanks
> >
> >> Sean Coleman
> >
> >
> > Jules
> >
> Happy vacation to you, Glenn! I am also off in an hour and a half, but only
> taking a week. I'll tip a few in your general direction!!
Have a fabulous one, you too! Don't bring the lappy and phone;-)
(Tempting censorship-by-Hugo, I'll likewise tip a few in your general
direction:-)

Cheers
-- 
-- Glenn
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