[kman42]

Can someone tell me how cpan and fink interact?

I tried to install the most recent version of bioperl using cpan. I'm not very familiar with cpan and am having trouble finding out where it installed everything and how it will interact with my Apple-installed Perl, my fink installed perl and an older version of bioperl installed with fink. I think I may have just created a big mess.

kman

[kman42]

I think cpan installs stuff in ~/.cpan. I found perl-5.8.0 in there along with the newest bioperl that I installed. However, if I go to the perl-5.8.0 directory and try to run perl, I get this error:
./perl
dyld: ./perl can't open library: /Library/Perl/darwin/CORE/libperl.dylib (No such file or directory, errno = 2)
Trace/BPT trap


These is, in fact, no CORE directory in the /Library/Perl/darwin directory.

I've really confused myself with this one.

kman

[macmike42]

Originally posted by kman42:
...Apple-installed Perl...fink installed perl...older version of bioperl installed with fink. I think I may have just created a big mess.

I am forced to agree! (About the big mess, wouldn't no where to even start trying to clean that up.)

Why don't you just make a new package description for bioperl 1.2 and put it in /sw/fink/10.2/local/main/finkinfo? Use the existing .info file as a starting point. I wouldn't imagine it should be very hard (unless it requires Perl 5.8, which it doesn't seem to).

The Fink team is currently working on a more elegant way to integrate Fink and locally-installed CPAN stuff, since they pretty much ignore each other right now.