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in thread CPAN.pm says module is up-to-date, but running it says XS code is not built.

How would it have been different with cpanm?
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Re^5: CPAN.pm says module is up-to-date, but running it says XS code is not built.
by McA (Priest) on Sep 10, 2014 at 14:53 UTC

    I would have used cpanm --reinstall DIST which would force the attempt to reinstall without skipping the tests, isn't it?

    McA

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      Ah, nice. just checked, and cpan doesn't have this. It should, though.

      Finally, someone has given me an advantage to cpanm.

      • Has --reinstall
      • Uses less memory, allowing it to be used on some embedded systems I don't use.
      • You have to use curl -L http://cpanmin.us | perl - App::cpanminus instead of press Enter the first time you use it.
      • Less configurable.
      • Hides output, so it appears to be doing nothing for minutes at a time.
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        Hi ikegami,

        I'm sure it's because of lack of knowledge on my side. But starting with cpanm in combination with local::lib I do the following very often to test distributions and to get a feeling about the dependency tree resulting from installing these:

        mkdir mylib
cpanm -v -L ./mylib Probably::Fat::Dist # yes, yes -v: I also like out
+put
perl -Mlocal::lib=./mylib -MProbably::Fat::Dist -E'say "Get feet wet w
+ith Probably::Fat::Dist"'
rm -rf ./mylib

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        I'm sure there is a way to do it with cpan, but I never learned it neither used it. Can you show an equivalent? (I'm really interested on systems without cpanm)

        Regards
        McA

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