furnival at mac
Jul 29, 2004, 10:18 AM
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Re: Latest File::Spec/CWD have a recursive dependency
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Thanks Ken - that seems to have worked. I will test it a bit and make
sure. I was using cpan and OS X 10.3.4
Thanks again,
Lawrence Furnival
On Jul 29, 2004, at 8:56 AM, Ken Williams wrote:
> Hi Alan & Lawrence,
>
> Is this CPAN.pm complaining about the recursive dependency? It's
> actually not strictly recursive - File::Spec needs Cwd 2.18, but Cwd
> needs *any* version of File::Spec, and the one that came with core
> perl will suffice.
>
> It would be nice if CPAN.pm only complained about *unmet*
> dependencies, since the dependencies are already satisfied for a Cwd
> upgrade.
>
> One way to address this in CPAN would be to 'install Cwd' first, then
> 'install File::Spec'.
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> I agree it's annoying though, and I'm open to suggestions about how to
> address it.
>
> -Ken
>
> On Jul 27, 2004, at 8:41 AM, Alan Burlison wrote:
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>> Recursive dependency detected:
>> File::Spec
>> => K/KW/KWILLIAMS/File-Spec-0.88.tar.gz
>> => Cwd
>> => K/KW/KWILLIAMS/Cwd-2.20.tar.gz
>> => File::Spec.
>> Cannot continue.
>>
>> --
>> Alan Burlison
>> --
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