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Re: Problem with perl -i option


Charles Wilson schrieb am 2001-08-20, 11:38:

>Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
>> Christopher Faylor schrieb am 2001-08-15, 10:36:
>>>Unfortunately, our perl maintainer has gone silent.
>>>
>>>Is anyone here willing to pick up the perl maintainership?
>>>
>> I'm trying to build perl 5.6.1 according to the instructions from
>> Eric's README, but i got problems with 'Term::ReadKey' from the CPAN
>> Bundle:
>> =======
>> [...]
>> Term::ReadKey is using TERMIOS, as opposed to TERMIO or SGTTY.
[...]
>> make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 2
>
>Search the archives.  There is a patch necessary for Term::ReadKey 
>(since when is Term::ReadKey part of the standard perl source?  That 
>*used* to be an add-on module distributed separately...)

Yes, i searched, but i found nothing specific to TermReadkey.

Currently, Term::ReadKey IS part of cygwin-perl..., the whole 
Bundle::CPAN is part of ctgwin-perl. 

I would include some more modules if there are wishes:-)

> ===
>> I finished one complete build yesterday (with add. modules), but that was
>> with libiconv and libcygipc and libdb.
>
>Yes, official packages should not depend on non-official packages (with 
>the exception of postgresql which depends on cygipc).  Perl is "core" 
>enough that it should not require ANY external (non-official) 
>dependencies.  (i.e. no "cygipc" exception for perl).

O.K., no problem with that. Just would like to see libiconv be part of
the official distri.

gph


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