On Oct 17, 2004, at 1:35 PM, Tim & Alethea Larson wrote:
perl -MCPAN -e "install XML::Parser"
perl -MCPAN -e "install Bundle::CPAN"
perl -MCPAN -e "install Bundle::libnet"
perl -MCPAN -e "install Net::FTP"
perl -MCPAN -e "install HTTP::Date"
Are all those commands in a .sh script or something?
Have you tried running each separately?
Is there anything in the startup that says something about "unable to
write to ~/.cpan/*" or anything like that?
How it should work (I think) is that stuff is downloaded into your
~/.cpan/* directory (configurable) and built, installed, etc., one
package at a time out of that directory. So, as the process unfolds,
several different things should be running:
1) perl -MCPAN -e "install XML::Parser" (or whichever one is running
at the time. This is the master process that's launching all the other
stuff)
Then, one of the following will be running:
2) perl Makefile.PL (while the package is actually building)
or... perl -MTest::Harness x.t (while the package is being tested)
or... gcc xxxxxxxxxx (while any C components are being bult)
CPAN is a serial process, so multiple things shouldn't be going on at
the same time. Is there one specific package during which something is
freaking out? What does the dialogue look like? Is there some infinite
loop going on?
I'm never had the CPAN module slurp my RAM...
That probably didn't help... Sorry,