Re: SDL 2.503 Released!

You should set the PERLBREW_ROOT before doing init. Sorry I should  
have mentioned it. rm -rf perl5 and that line from .bashrc.

Kartik Thakore

On 2010-07-29, at 12:48 AM, Pip Stuart <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 15:25, Kartik Thakore <[email protected] 
> > wrote:
>> Oh I didn't know you had perl 5.8 ... App::perlbrew would be a  
>> simple, non
>> intrusive way of upgrading just.
> OMG! I wish it were simple && non-intrusive. ;)
>
>> http://search.cpan.org/dist/App-perlbrew/
>>
>> perlbrew init
> This command presumptuously created a perl5/perlbrew/* sub-dirs in my
> $HOME! IPERLBREW_ROO moved it to ~/.perlbrew/ instead then had to  
> export
>  to the latter.
>
>> perlbrew install perl-5.12.1 -D=useithreads
> <root@RyuA7SNaJl~>perlbrew installed
> <root@RyuA7SNab2~>perlbrew install perl-5.12.1 -D=useithreads
> Attempting to load conf from /home/pip/.perlbrew/Conf.pm
> Fetching perl-5.12.1 as /home/pip/.perlbrew/dists/perl-5.12.1.tar.gz
> Installing perl-5.12.1 into /home/pip/.perlbrew/perls/perl-5.12.1
> This could take a while. You can run the following command on another
> shell to track the status:
>
>  tail -f /home/pip/.perlbrew/build.log
>
> (cd /home/pip/.perlbrew/build; tar xzf
> /home/pip/.perlbrew/dists/perl-5.12.1.tar.gz;cd
> /home/pip/.perlbrew/build/perl-5.12.1;rm -f config.sh Policy.sh;sh
> Configure -de -Dprefix=/home/pip/.perlbrew/perls/perl-5.12.1
> -Duseithreads;make;make test && make install) >>
> '/home/pip/.perlbrew/build.log' 2>&1
> Installing perl-5.12.1 failed. See /home/pip/.perlbrew/build.log to  
> see why.
> If you want to force install the distribution, try:
>
>  perlbrew --force install perl
>
> <root@RyuA7SNb2G~>tail -f .perlbrew/build.log
>
> gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
> tar: Child returned status 1
> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
> sh: line 0: cd: /home/pip/.perlbrew/build/perl-5.12.1: No such file  
> or directory
> sh: Configure: No such file or directory
> make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
> make: *** No rule to make target `test'.  Stop.
>
> <root@RyuA7SNdUp~>echo "Yipes!"
>
>> perlbrew switch perl-5.12.1
>>
>> cpan/pip the stuff again.
>>
>> You can switch back to old perl with:
>>
>> perlswitch /usr/bin/perlbrew
>>
>> Kartik Thakore
> -Pip