From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 26 04:34:09 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0813F16A406 for ; Mon, 26 Mar 2007 04:34:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout1.cac.washington.edu (mxout1.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.134]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA02513C487 for ; Mon, 26 Mar 2007 04:34:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.32.139]) by mxout1.cac.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW07.03) with ESMTP id l2Q4Y8OU027652 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Sun, 25 Mar 2007 21:34:08 -0700 X-Auth-Received: from [192.168.10.45] (c-67-187-172-183.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [67.187.172.183]) (authenticated authid=youshi10) by smtp.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW07.03) with ESMTP id l2Q4Y7ID005357 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Sun, 25 Mar 2007 21:34:08 -0700 Message-ID: <46083C5D.8080009@u.washington.edu> Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 21:34:21 +0000 From: Garrett Cooper User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070325) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <46083AFC.8040804@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <46083AFC.8040804@u.washington.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-Version: 5.3.0.289146, Antispam-Engine: 2.5.0.283055, Antispam-Data: 2007.3.25.211933 X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=XIII, Probability=13%, Report='DATE_IN_FUTURE_12_24 1.3, __CP_URI_IN_BODY 0, __CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0, __USER_AGENT 0' Subject: Re: What happened to my Perl installation??? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 04:34:09 -0000 Garrett Cooper wrote: > Peter Matulis wrote: > >> I did an upgrade of my ports and I got some errors regarding Perl >> modules. The system asked my to remove BSDPAN which I did. Later I >> discovered I had other problems updating certain ports because of >> missing Perl parts. This is part of the problem: >> >> $ perldoc BSDPAN >> Can't locate File/Spec.pm in @INC (@INC contains: >> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/mach >> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl >> /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/mach /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8 . >> /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/BSDPAN >> /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/BSDPAN/..) at >> /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/File/Spec/Functions.pm line 3. >> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at >> /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/File/Spec/Functions.pm line 3. >> Compilation failed in require at >> /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/Pod/Perldoc.pm line 10. >> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at >> /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/Pod/Perldoc.pm line 10. >> Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/bin/perldoc line 9. >> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/bin/perldoc line 9. >> >> How do I fix up my Perl installation? >> >> Thank you very much. >> >> Peter >> > Eep. That's not good. Have you tried reinstalling perl? I'm curious > because according to CPAN it appears that File::Spec is a part of the > base Perl system: > . > > -Garrett Here's a printout of my /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8 directory. Maybe you can send it through diff and figure out what's not there -- assuming you don't reinstall first which I think might be a better idea to be honest since it sounds like Perl's pretty mucked up: http://students.washington.edu/youshi10/posted/perl_printout.txt