stow-2.1.1 needs a perl module
"Nelson H. F. Beebe" <[email protected]> Mon, 12 Dec 2011 07:35:42 -0700 (MST)
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On about 25 flavors of Unix here in our test lab, builds of stow-2.1.1 all failed. I tracked down the problem to a perl module that is needed, but had never been installed on any of our systems: Test::Output. Once that module was installed, validation tests and installations have gone smoothly. Given that other sites are likely to be missing that module too, I think that the stow configure script should check for its availability, and terminate early if it is not found. As an aside, a good friend of mine is the co-author of an article on stow and depot that appeared a decade ago in the LISA 2001 proceedings, and I read it again over the weekend. The authors of that paper lay out a plan for a future merger of rpm + depot/stow capabilities to support networked as well as standalone systems. As far as I know, nothing has happened to further that goal, but it might be useful fodder for future GNU stow development. Here is a pointer to the paper: R. P. C. Rodgers and Ziying Sherwin A Management System for Network-Sharable Locally Installed Software: Merging RPM and the Depot Scheme Under Solaris Proceedings of LISA 2001: 15th Systems Administration Conference, December 2--7, 2001, Town and Country Resort Hotel, San Diego, CA ISBN 1-880446-05-7 http://db.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/lisa2001/tech/rodgers.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Nelson H. F. Beebe Tel: +1 801 581 5254 - - University of Utah FAX: +1 801 581 4148 - - Department of Mathematics, 110 LCB Internet e-mail: [email protected] - - 155 S 1400 E RM 233 [email protected] [email protected] - - Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/ - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------