Installing Date::Calc

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

Im having trouble installing Date::Calc. perl Makefile.PL works fine, but when I type make I get the following error:

Perl lib version (5.00503) doesn't match executable version (5.002) at
+ /usr/perl5/5.00503/sun4-solaris/Config.pm line 7.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/perl5/5.00503/ExtUtils/MakeM
+aker.pm line 13.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.
*** Error code 2
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `Version_check'
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I know this not really a perl question directly, but has anyone else seen this problem? I am running perl 5.00503. I don't know why MakeMaker.pm says require 5.002. Or where is a better place to ask this question?

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Re: Installing Date::Calc by arturo (Vicar) on Aug 03, 2001 at 21:51 UTC
It looks to me like what's happening is that you're running perl 5.002 and MakeMaker is `require`-ing 5.00503</code> Try these two commands: `which perl` [download] and `/path/you/got/from/the/previous/command/perl -V` [download] Read the output carefully. That will tell you which version of perl you run by default, the first one found on your `PATH`. Really, you only need issue `perl -V` to do that but the other stuff will give you useful diagnostic information. The moral: make sure that you call Makefile.PL with a perl interpreter that's at least version 5.00503. HTH. `perl -e 'print "How sweet does a rose smell? "; chomp ($n = <STDIN>); +$rose = "smells sweet to degree $n"; other_name = rose; print "$oth +er_name\n"'` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re: Installing Date::Calc
by arturo (Vicar) on Aug 03, 2001 at 21:51 UTC

It looks to me like what's happening is that you're *running* perl 5.002 and MakeMaker is require-ing 5.00503</code>

Try these two commands:

which perl
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/path/you/got/from/the/previous/command/perl -V
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Read the output carefully. That will tell you which version of perl you run by default, the first one found on your PATH. Really, you only need issue perl -V to do that but the other stuff will give you useful diagnostic information. The moral: make sure that you call Makefile.PL with a perl interpreter that's at least version 5.00503.

HTH.

perl -e 'print "How sweet does a rose smell? "; chomp ($n = <STDIN>); 
+$rose = "smells sweet to degree $n"; *other_name = *rose; print "$oth
+er_name\n"'
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