"Jay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I love Geo::PostalCode. Did you read the INSTALL file? From the docs, notice > > the lwp-download, gunzip, and ./load.pl calls BEFORE perl Makefile.PL is > > executed: > > > > To install, run > > > > lwp-download http://tjmather.com/Geo-PostalCode_19991101.txt.gz > > gunzip Geo-PostalCode_19991101.txt.gz > > ./load.pl # this will take a few seconds... > > perl Makefile.PL > > make > > make test > > make install > > > > Make sure to install the postalcode.db, city.db and latlon.db files in an > > approriate > > directory. This will be the directory passed to the db_dir parameter of the > > new constructor. > > > > I found the above at: > > > > http://search.cpan.org/src/TJMATHER/Geo-PostalCode-0.06/INSTALL > > Thanks for the pointer. I thought I'd read the install file, but I > guess I just read the pod on cpan. It's frustrating, though, that a > module published to cpan would include installation steps that > specifically prevent its being installed via cpan, and that the author > would create a custom data set, but leave the link to the census data > in at leasty two places in the docs. >
Youre right, it was confusing because of the variance from the standard install method. Whenever I have trouble installing a module from CPAN, I do a: cpan> look Some::Module and CPAN.pm will open a shell for me in that distro. So I can tweak the install. Todd W. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
