Opened 15 years ago

Closed 15 years ago

#2528 closed task (fixed)

Perl modules magic trick

Reported by: martyj19 Owned by: blfs-book@…
Priority: normal Milestone: 6.3
Component: BOOK Version: SVN
Severity: normal Keywords:
Cc:

Description

Today I upgraded the Compress:: modules family, which comes in a half dozen parts, from 2.008 to 2.009. I had a world of hurt because the later parts insisted that I only had 2.008 installed and, while I suspected cruft lying around, I couldn't find it. After a good amount of digging, I discovered

​http://perldoc.perl.org/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.html

which recommends using "make install UNINST=1" to ensure that old versions of things are cleaned up.

This might be worth noting to save others time given that people will sometimes use the book instructions outside of a fresh start.

  • Marty Jack

Change History (1)

comment:1 by bdubbs@…, 15 years ago

Resolution: → fixed
Status: new → closed

Added a note to the installation portion of Perl modules.

Fixed in revision 7420.

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