Will Mengarini wrote: > * Weaver <wea...@riseup.net> [22-07/04=Mo 00:43 -0700]: > > ... your day going? > > Hairier than Gene Heskett's nostrils, because "up"grading Perl from > 5.8.8 to 5.34.1 had a fine `make test`, then installed a CPAN that's > so broken it abends before it finishes its own Configure, thereby > making it impossible to upgrade anything else, and leaving the new Perl > unrunnable because compiled modules keep reporting missing symbols > and abending, because they need to be recompiled, which is what CPAN > is *for*, and of course it can't do that, because it too depends on > compiled modules that cause it to abend before it can recompile them.
Bullseye comes with 5.32.x; is there a reason that won't work for you? > Somebody needs to reimplement CPAN in Bash just so we can bootstrap a > totally broken Perl without needing to run out and buy a new computer. > I mean, how hard can it be (assuming you grok what CPAN actually > *does*, which I don't yet, and know Bash, which I know just enough > of to make Greg Wooledge hate me)? CPAN is a repository for Perl modules the same way that debian.org provides a repository for Debian packages. You can access it several different ways, but in general using the Debian dh-make-perl package to pull a CPAN module and convert it into a .deb will make you happiest, especially if you have to install it on more than one machine. > For extra fun, I have to interrupt soon because I *JUST* found out > that my physician is retiring EIGHT DAYS from today, I'm ADHD and > have already run out of methylphenidate, and that physician has been > my only source; the only one I know in the Seattle area who isn't > intimidated by a medically-competent client or offended that I consider > my own body to be my property and not that of the physicians' guild. You may wish to ask your physician to recommend you specifically to a younger doc, and vice-versa. -dsr-
