Re: circular requirements

David Golden <[email protected]> Mon, 7 Jun 2010 06:57:48 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.modules.extutils-makemaker.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Geoffrey Leach <[email protected]> wrote:
> ExtUtils::MakeMaker was previously installed from the Fedora 12 rpm. I
> removed it. There was no ExtUtils::Installed. Then I attempted to
> install ExtUtils::MakeMaker using the cpan script. It failed as
> ExtUtils::Installed.pm was not available. Installing
> ExtUtils::Installed failed as ExtUtils::MakeMaker was not available.

ExtUtils::MakeMaker on CPAN ships with ExtUtils::Installed in inc/.
It should pick that up and use it if necessary, so even what you
describe seems very, very odd.

Can you duplicate the behavior and send a transcript of the output?
Also, please send your "perl -V" output.

Thank you,

David