HTML::Template: Installation Problem on Darwin/Mac OS X

I was unable to locate a discussion of this problem in the list 
archives (http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=9830), 
so I would like to pose it to the list.

Recently I installed HTML::Template on my iBook (Mac OS X 10.3 Darwin). 
  In my first attempt, I elected *not* to install the shared cache 
feature.  The package installed and tested properly, with 2 tests which 
called the shared cache feature being properly skipped.

I then tried to reinstall *with* the shared cache feature by answering 
'yes' at every prompt called by 'make'.  Here I ran into considerable 
problems, as the shared cache feature has dependencies which are *not* 
listed in Makefile.PL.  These dependencies are 'require'-ed rather than 
'use'-d and the module puts these requires in 'eval' blocks.  The 
modules required on the fly which gave me problems were:

Gtop:  required for the memory_debug feature; documented at line 670; 
code begins at line 1038.
Gtop (http://search.cpan.org/~stas/GTop-0.14/) is described as Perl 
interface to libgtop.  libgtop is a library not found on all OSes.  I 
tried to understand its relationship to HTML::Template but noted these 
further problems:  (1) The POD is all screwed up (e.g., 
http://search.cpan.org/~stas/GTop-0.14/Makefile.PL).  The maintainer 
has responded and written a patch, but it will only get up to CPAN when 
the next version of the module is released.  (2)  The current version 
of GTop has not been extensively tested by testers.cpan -- only two 
testers have run it -- and it has failed all those tests.  This 
suggests that the foundations of HTML::Template's memory_debug feature 
are shaky.

IPC::SharedCache:  required for the shared_cache feature; documented at 
line 524, 665; code begins at line 1060, 1067.
IPC::SharedCache 
(http://search.cpan.org/~samtregar/IPC-SharedCache-1.3/) was also 
written by Sam Tregar, author of HTML::Template.  IPC::SharedCache in 
turn has dependencies listed in its Makefile.PL.  One is IPC::SysV, a 
module with which I was previously not acquainted, has been core since 
perl 5.005.

But the other is IPC::ShareLite (v0.06 or later) 
(http://search.cpan.org/~maurice/IPC-ShareLite-0.09/).  This module has 
XS code (there be goblins).  My attempt to install it on Darwin failed. 
  I can't say why, but perhaps this quotation from the IPC::ShareLite 
README is relevant:  "Your operating system must support SysV IPC 
(shared memory and semaphores) in order to use this module."

I tried to install the full-featured version of HTML::Template first 
via the CPAN.pm automated process, then by manually installing each 
dependency.  I never succeeded in installing either Gtop or 
IPC::ShareLite.  Consequently, I have only the non-shared cache version 
of HTML::Template to work with.

Has anyone else encountered these problems and developed a workaround?

Thanks for reading this far!

Jim Keenan



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