PPM - area list lists multiple versions of perl

reasonablekeith has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi Monks,

I have a server with perl5.8 and perl10 installed on it, (c and d drives respectively). My problem is that I'm trying to install a number of modules for perl10, but ppm is showing that these are already installed under 5.8, so isn't installing them.

I can of course force the install...

ppm install Catalyst-Devel -area Perl10 -force
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but there are a whole bunch of dependencies which don't get installed because ppm also thinks they are already there.

So, as I see it, I either need to get ppm to ingore the perl5.8 folders on the c drive (I'm only referencing perl10 in the environment), or get ppm to follow and install all depenencies, which seems excessive. Unfortunately, I can figure out how to do neither.

Thanks,

Rob

PS, my area list looks like this

D:\Perl10\bin>ppm area list
+----------------------------------------+
Ś name       Ś pkgs Ś lib                Ś
+------------+------+--------------------Ś
Ś Perl10     Ś    1 Ś D:/Perl10/site/lib Ś
Ś (Perl10_2) Ś  n/a Ś D:/Perl10/lib      Ś
Ś site*      Ś  123 Ś C:/Perl/site/lib   Ś
Ś perl       Ś    1 Ś C:/Perl/lib        Ś
+----------------------------------------+
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---
my name's not Keith, and I'm not reasonable.

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Re: PPM - area list lists multiple versions of perl by jand (Friar) on Jun 09, 2009 at 16:58 UTC
PPM uses the list of directories in `@INC` to generate the area names. I suspect you have the `PERL5LIB` or `PERLLIB` environment variables set to point to the directories of one of your Perl installations. That is generally not necessary, and potentially a bad idea if the different versions aren't binary compatible. So just clearing the environment variable should get rid of the erroneous areas in PPM.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: PPM - area list lists multiple versions of perl by reasonablekeith (Deacon) on Jun 10, 2009 at 07:45 UTC
I did wonder this, but the only perl reference I have in my environment variables is the one in PATH to the correct version of perl ie "D:\Perl10\bin". Which would seem okay. Additionally, printing @INC looks good too... `D:\Perl10\bin>perl -e "print join ',', @INC"; D:/Perl10/site/lib,D:/Perl10/lib,.` [download] Cheers, Rob --- my name's not Keith, and I'm not reasonable.	[reply] [d/l]

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