Re: error

Hi Tom,

"version" is the name of another Perl module. Try to install
version.pm from CPAN first:

$ cpan version

(or download from http://search.cpan.org/dist/version/)

Good luck,
Henning


On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:17 PM, Tom Fahland <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am using perl 5.8.8, dbi vesion 1.6.0.9, dbd:pg 2.16.1. os is linux. Postgressql = 8.4.1.
> ------------------------
> I installed a new version of DBI and that went ok. Then I tried to install dbd:pg module and it complained about something with version?
>
> Configuring DBD::Pg 2.16.1
> PostgreSQL version: 80401 (default port: 5432)
> POSTGRES_HOME: (not set)
> POSTGRES_INCLUDE: /usr/local/encap/postgresql-8.4.1/include
> POSTGRES_LIB: /usr/local/encap/postgresql-8.4.1/lib
> OS: linux
> Warning: prerequisite version 0 not found.
> Could not eval '
>            package ExtUtils::MakeMaker::_version;
>            no strict;
>
>            local $VERSION;
>            $VERSION=undef; do {
>                        use version; our $VERSION = qv('2.16.1');
>            }; $VERSION
>        ' in Pg.pm: Can't locate version.pm in @INC (@INC contains: t/lib /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8 .) at (eval 10) line 7, <FH> line 20.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 10) line 7, <FH> line 20.
> WARNING: Setting VERSION via file 'Pg.pm' failed
>  at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm line 515
> Using DBI 1.609 (for perl 5.008008 on i386-linux-thread-multi) installed in /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto/DBI/
> Writing Makefile for DBD::Pg
>