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If you are a member of the perl5-porters mailing list, it is a good thing to keep in touch with the most recent changes. If not only to verify if what you would have posted as a bug report isn't already solved in the most recent available perl development branch, also known as perl-current, bleading edge perl, bleedperl or bleadperl.

Now from what I can gather, this is a simple typo on the part of the guy who wrote the Makefile.PL (I may be wrong).

What I'd try (I haven't done it myself), is simply changing the instances of bleedperl to just perl, preferably in Makefile.PL

sub MY::postamble {
    '
$(NAME).pod:    $(NAME).pod.P t/examples.t.T t/examples3.t.T mkpod
    perl ./mkpod

$(NAME).xs:    constants.h constants.xs typemap
    $(TOUCH) $(NAME).xs

constants.h constants.xs:    mkconsts
    bleedperl mkconsts xs 

$(NAME).pm:    mkconsts
    bleedperl mkconsts pm $(NAME).pm > $(NAME).pm.tmp && mv $(NAME).pm
+.tmp $(NAME).pm

Makefile:    config.in 


' ;
}
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Happy Coding!

 

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I've tried that but get

perl mkconsts pm BerkeleyDB.pm > BerkeleyDB.pm.tmp && mv BerkeleyDB.pm
+.tmp BerkeleyDB.pm
Can't locate ExtUtils/Constant.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/l
+ib/perl5/5.6.1/sparc64-linux /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1 /usr/local/li
+b/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/sparc64-linux /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/
+5.6.1 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/sparc64-linux /usr/local/l
+ib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl .) at mkconst
+s line 3.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at mkconsts line 3.
make: *** [BerkeleyDB.pm] Error 2
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I thought that if you tried to upgrade ExtUtils, you end up having to re-install perl. Am I incorrect?

-Lee

"To be civilized is to deny one's nature."

I thought that if you tried to upgrade ExtUtils, you end up having to re-install perl. Am I incorrect?

No. That was some old CPAN bug which upgrade your perl. ExtUtils::MakeMaker and ExtUtils::Constant are both regular cpan distributions (and MakeMaker even has a website ).

MJD says "you can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo!"

I run a Win32 PPM repository for perl 5.6.x and 5.8.x -- I take requests (README).

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