Unable to install perl

[cybersiddhu]

I am on Mac OSX 10.5.8 and installed plenv using brew. However, the install is throwing error for any version of perl i try to install. Below is the one for perl-5.10.1

Install 5.10.1 to /Users/sid/.plenv/versions/5.10.1
Fetching 5.10.1 as /var/folders/az/azc7iGwYH0SthirIT36L8++++TI/-Tmp-/Lod61oKN53/perl-5.10.1.tar.bz2
rm -f config.sh Policy.sh
/usr/bin/perl -Mlib=/usr/local/Cellar/plenv/1.1.0/bin/../share/plenv//lib/perl5/ /usr/local/Cellar/plenv/1.1.0/bin/../share/plenv/bin/patchperl
Can't locate IPC/Cmd.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/Cellar/plenv/1.1.0/bin/../share/plenv//lib/perl5/ /Library/Perl/Updates/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level 
/Library/Perl/Updates/5.8.8 /System/Library/Perl/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level 
/System/Library/Perl/5.8.8 /Library/Perl/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level /Library/Perl/5.8.8 /Library/Perl /Network/Library/Perl/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level 
/Network/Library/Perl/5.8.8 /Network/Library/Perl
 /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level 
/System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.8.8 /Library/Perl/5.8.6 /Library/Perl/5.8.1 .) at 
/usr/local/Cellar/plenv/1.1.0/bin/../share/plenv//lib/perl5//Devel/PatchPerl.pm line 13.

Any idea why it's happening and how to fix it ?

[tokuhirom]

Ah, this issue is caused by older perls(Perl 5.9.5+ has IPC::Cmd as core library).
I bundled latest IPC::Cmd to fix this issue. And I'll send a pull-req to homebrew.

For now, please try brew install --head plenv.

[cybersiddhu]

Now it needs HTTP::Tiny
Can't locate HTTP/Tiny.pm in @inc (@inc contains: /usr/local/Cellar/plenv/HEAD/bin/../share/plenv/lib/perl5 /Library/Perl/Updates/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level /Library/Perl/Updates/5.8.8 /System/Library/Perl/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level /System/Library/Perl/5.8.8 /Library/Perl/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level /Library/Perl/5.8.8 /Library/Perl /Network/Library/Perl/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level /Network/Library/Perl/5.8.8 /Network/Library/Perl /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.8.8 /Library/Perl/5.8.6 /Library/Perl/5.8.1 .) at /usr/local/Cellar/plenv/HEAD/bin/../share/plenv/lib/perl5/Perl/Build.pm line 14.

[tokuhirom]

Okay, the issue was fixed too. Sorry I forgot to add HTTP::Tiny to share/plenv, since it's in core 5.14.

[tokuhirom]

please try brew install --head plenv

[cybersiddhu]

Now its Params::Check
Can't locate Params/Check.pm in @inc (@inc contains: /usr/local/Cellar/plenv/HEAD/bin/../share/plenv//lib/perl5/ /Library/Perl/Updates/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level /Library/Perl/Updates/5.8.8 /System/Library/Perl/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level /System/Library/Perl/5.8.8 /Library/Perl/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level /Library/Perl/5.8.8 /Library/Perl /Network/Library/Perl/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level /Network/Library/Perl/5.8.8 /Network/Library/Perl /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.8.8 /Library/Perl/5.8.6 /Library/Perl/5.8.1 .) at /usr/local/Cellar/plenv/HEAD/bin/../share/plenv//lib/perl5//IPC/Cmd.pm line 48.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/Cellar/plenv/HEAD/bin/../share/plenv//lib/perl5//IPC/Cmd.pm line 48.

[tokuhirom]

Hi. I added test case to find missing modules under the perl 5.8.
I guess, current HEAD may work!

[tokuhirom]

The issue was fixed in 1.4.2

[cybersiddhu]

Not yet, still need version 0.870

plenv install perl-5.10.1                                                                                                                            rvm:ruby-1.9.2-p0 
Creating /var/folders/az/azc7iGwYH0SthirIT36L8++++TI/-Tmp-/perl-build-20130213-0946493017(building directory)
Install 5.10.1 to /Users/sid/.plenv/versions/5.10.1
Fetching 5.10.1 as /var/folders/az/azc7iGwYH0SthirIT36L8++++TI/-Tmp-/JAkuIeRwtR/perl-5.10.1.tar.bz2
Downloaded http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/D/DA/DAPM/perl-5.10.1.tar.bz2 to /var/folders/az/azc7iGwYH0SthirIT36L8++++TI/-Tmp-/JAkuIeRwtR/perl-5.10.1.tar.bz2.
rm -f config.sh Policy.sh
/usr/bin/perl -Mlib=/usr/local/Cellar/plenv/HEAD/bin/../share/plenv//lib/perl5/ /usr/local/Cellar/plenv/HEAD/bin/../share/plenv/bin/patchperl
version version 0.870 (v0.870.0) required--this is only version 0.700 (v0.700.0) at /usr/local/Cellar/plenv/HEAD/bin/../share/plenv//lib/perl5//Module/Metadata.pm line 20.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/Cellar/plenv/HEAD/bin/../share/plenv//lib/perl5//Module/Metadata.pm line 20.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/Cellar/plenv/HEAD/bin/../share/plenv//lib/perl5//Module/Load/Conditional.pm line 14.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/Cellar/plenv/HEAD/bin/../share/plenv//lib/perl5//Module/Load/Conditional.pm line 14.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/Cellar/plenv/HEAD/bin/../share/plenv//lib/perl5//IPC/Cmd.pm line 50.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/Cellar/plenv/HEAD/bin/../share/plenv//lib/perl5//IPC/Cmd.pm line 50.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/Cellar/plenv/HEAD/bin/../share/plenv//lib/perl5//Devel/PatchPerl.pm line 13.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/Cellar/plenv/HEAD/bin/../share/plenv//lib/perl5//Devel/PatchPerl.pm line 13.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/Cellar/plenv/HEAD/bin/../share/plenv/bin/patchperl line 12.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/Cellar/plenv/HEAD/bin/../share/plenv/bin/patchperl line 12.
Installation failure: /usr/bin/perl -Mlib=/usr/local/Cellar/plenv/HEAD/bin/../share/plenv//lib/perl5/ /usr/local/Cellar/plenv/HEAD/bin/../share/plenv/bin/patchperl at /usr/local/Cellar/plenv/HEAD/bin/../share/plenv/lib/perl5/Perl/Build.pm line 208.

One question though, Why it need perl to install perl ?

[miyagawa]

Some unmaintained perls (including 5.10 you're trying to install) need patches to build on a modern build environment, and you need patchperl command to do it. It's silly that patchperl requires that many dependencies, I completely agree.

I'll ask the author of patchperl if it's possible to drop some of the deps that brings these chain of deps, and then build a fatpack executable (like cpanm) that doesn't require separate libraries to run.

[cybersiddhu]

On Wed, 13 Feb 2013, Tatsuhiko Miyagawa wrote:

Some unmaintained perls (including 5.10 you're trying to install) need
patches to build on a modern build environment, and you need patchperl
command to do it. It's silly that patchperl requires that many
dependencies, I completely agree.

I'll ask the author of patchperl if it's possible to drop some of the deps
that brings these chain of deps, and then build a fatpack executable (like
cpanm) that doesn't require separate libraries to run.
That would be great, however i truly believe its also time to ditch
these old perls and move on. I would rather try plenv on a newer perls.
Really appreciate your help.

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub.

[miyagawa]

That would be great, however i truly believe its also time to ditch
these old perls and move on. I would rather try plenv on a newer perls.

Yes, but the point is that plenv is (also) a tool to start building a new perl on old perl exactly like yours.

You're basically having the bootstrap problem since if you have perl 5.10 to begin with none of these issues should come up with it. Even the 5.10 is not maintained anymore by the perl 5 porters, since they switched to the yearly major release.

I'm sure tokuhirom will add other required deps until you can bootstrap with 5.8 in the meantime, but if you can upgrade your OS to 10.6 it should be much easier since Snow Leopard has perl 5.10 in /usr/bin.

[tokuhirom]

Issue was fixed by #11.

[cybersiddhu]

Thanks a lot.

On Thu, 21 Feb 2013, Tokuhiro Matsuno wrote:

Issue was fixed by #11.

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[miyagawa]

PatchPerl 0.84 stripped all of IPC::Cmd and its sub deps.
https://metacpan.org/source/BINGOS/Devel-PatchPerl-0.84/Changes

[tokuhirom]

Released jew version to deoend it.
2013/03/10 9:26 "Tatsuhiko Miyagawa" notifications@github.com:

PatchPerl 0.84 stripped all of IPC::Cmd and its sub deps.
https://metacpan.org/source/BINGOS/Devel-PatchPerl-0.84/Changes

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