Re^3: Error while using GD::Simple

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No, that about covers it. Neither the GD ppm at uwinnipeg nor the one at bribes, include GD::Group.pm. I don't know why that happens - it's clearly needed for GD::Simple to be functional. GD, itself seems to be usable, but not GD::Simple ... can you use GD instead ?

I can't see why GD/Group is not being included in the GD ppm packages. Anyone ?

Cheers,
Rob

UPDATE: As an interim measure, simply grabbing a copy of Group.pm from the CPAN source distro, and placing it next to Simple.pm in your perl installation might work - if you really do need to use GD::Simple

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Re^4: Error while using GD::Simple by randyk (Parson) on Jun 16, 2009 at 03:34 UTC
Thanks for pointing this out. The problem is that the Makefile.PL of the GD distribution specifies a PM attribute to WriteMakefile of what pm files to include, and this doesn't have Group.pm. It'd be a problem on any system, I would imagine. I've fixed this for the ppm packages in both the 5.10 and 5.8 uwinnipeg repositories.	[reply]
Re^5: Error while using GD::Simple by syphilis (Archbishop) on Jun 16, 2009 at 03:56 UTC
Aaaah ... that's how it's happened. Turns out there's already a bug report for this at http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=40656 and the proposed/recommended fix is to simply remove the `use GD::Group;` from GD/Simple.pm. Cheers, Rob	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: Error while using GD::Simple by Khen1950fx (Canon) on Jun 16, 2009 at 04:12 UTC
I had the same problem on Linux. I fixed it by adding `'GD/Group.pm' => '$(INST_LIBDIR)/GD/Group.pm',` [download] on line 237 of the Makefile.PL and ran a manual install. It works now.	[reply] [d/l]