Re: Glob.so: undefined symbol

On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 05:26:19PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 03:42:23PM +0200, Philippe Revault wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I  have not much to say cause i am not developper but the situation is I 
> > have installed ponie-2 because I want to get Test::More needed to 
> > install later Marc::Record.
> > 
> > So the point is when in directory Marc-Record-1.38 i launch 'perl 
> > Makefile.PL' i  got this message :
> > Checking if your kit is complete...
> > Looks good
> > perl: relocation error: 
> > /usr/local/perl_modules_i/ponie-2/lib/auto/File/Glob/Glob.so: undefined 
> > symbol: Perl_macro_SvCUR
> > 
> > Could you help me understand this and what to do with ?
> 
> Test::More is included in a lot of modules on CPAN, not just ponie.
> ponie is still a very early development project and not meant to be
> installed (yet). You're probably the first person to try installing it -
> not even the developers have tried yet :-)
> 
> I'm curious - why did you download ponie to get it? http://search.cpan.org/
> doesn't list ponie when you search for Test::More,

It has done in the past. It's curently listing this:

	"Palm-Progect-2.0.1 - 01 Jun 2002 - Michael Graham"

as the top result for "Test::More".

> Basically, if whatever suggested downloading ponie is a computer program, it
> is wrong, and needs fixing.

The lack of a META.yml in ponie doesn't help. But ponie is just one
example of many.

Tim.