From heitz@heitz.de

Created by onestone@excite.com

I am trying to install packages on NT 4.0 SP5, using PDK 1.2.4 and
ActivePerl521. The symptom looks as if perl wod try to open $PACKETNAME/.packlist/. as a file! here is the output from ppm​:

PPM> install Image-Size Image-Magick
Install package 'Image-Size?' (y/N)​: y
Retrieving package 'Image-Size'...
Installing \\DIBBE\Perl\html\lib\Image\Size.html
Installing C​:\Perl\lib\auto\Image\Size\autosplit.ix
Installing C​:\Perl\lib\auto\Image\Size\gifsize.al
Installing C​:\Perl\lib\auto\Image\Size\jpegsize.al
Installing C​:\Perl\lib\auto\Image\Size\pngsize.al
Installing C​:\Perl\lib\auto\Image\Size\ppmsize.al
Installing C​:\Perl\lib\auto\Image\Size\tiffsize.al
Installing C​:\Perl\lib\auto\Image\Size\xbmsize.al
Installing C​:\Perl\lib\auto\Image\Size\xpmsize.al
Installing C​:\Perl\lib\Image\Size.pm
Installing C​:\Perl\bin\imgsize
Installing C​:\Perl\bin\imgsize.bat
Writing C​:\Perl\lib\auto\Image\Size\.packlist\.
Error installing package 'Image-Size'​: Can't open file C​:\Perl\lib\auto\Image\Si
ze\.packlist\.​: Permission denied at C​:/Perl/lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm line 144

Install package 'Image-Magick?' (y/N)​: y
Retrieving package 'Image-Magick'...
Installing C​:\Perl\site\lib\auto\Image\Magick\Magick.bs
Installing C​:\Perl\site\lib\auto\Image\Magick\Magick.dll
Installing C​:\Perl\site\lib\auto\Image\Magick\Magick.exp
Installing C​:\Perl\site\lib\auto\Image\Magick\Magick.lib
Installing C​:\Perl\bin\FPXLIB.DLL
Installing C​:\Perl\bin\IMagick.dll
Installing C​:\Perl\bin\JPEGLIB.DLL
Installing C​:\Perl\bin\X11.dll
Installing C​:\Perl\bin\Xext.dll
Installing \\DIBBE\Perl\html\lib\site\Image\Magick.html
Installing C​:\Perl\lib\auto\Image\Magick\autosplit.ix
Installing C​:\Perl\lib\Image\Magick.pm
Writing C​:\Perl\lib\auto\Image\Magick\.packlist\.
Error installing package 'Image-Magick'​: Can't open file C​:\Perl\lib\auto\Image\Magick\.packlist\.​: Permission denied at C​:/Perl/lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm line 144

PPM> quit

it's not as bad as it looks, cause on my linux box everything works fine!-) Only
thing to worry​: I did pay some bux for the activestate version while linux is
free and betterX!-(

Site configuration information for perl 5.00503:

Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 5 subversion 03) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=MSWin32, osvers=4.0, archname=MSWin32-x86-object
    uname=''
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=undef
    usethreads=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cl.exe', optimize='-Od -MD -DNDEBUG -TP -GX', gccversion=
    cppflags='-DWIN32'
    ccflags ='-Od -MD -DNDEBUG -TP -GX -DWIN32 -D_CONSOLE -DNO_STRICT  -DHAVE_DES_FCRYPT -DPERL_OBJECT'
    stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=false
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8
    d_longlong=undef, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=10
    alignbytes=8, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='link', ldflags ='-nologo -nodefaultlib -release -libpath:"\\DIBBE\Perl\lib\CORE" -machine:x86'
    libpth="\\DIBBE\Perl\lib\core" "d:\objy51\lib" "e:\msdev\lib" "e:\msdev\mfc\lib" "d:\programme\devstudio\vc\lib" "d:\programme\devstudio\vc\mfc\lib" "d:\objy51\lib" 
    libs= oldnames.lib kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib  winspool.lib comdlg32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib  oleaut32.lib netapi32.lib uuid.lib wsock32.lib mpr.lib winmm.lib  version.lib odbc32.lib odbccp32.lib PerlCRT.lib
    libc=\\DIBBE\Perl\lib\CORE\PerlCRT.lib, so=dll, useshrplib=yes, libperl=perlcore.lib
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_win32.xs, dlext=dll, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
    cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags='-dll -nologo -nodefaultlib -release -libpath:"\\DIBBE\Perl\lib\CORE" -machine:x86'

Locally applied patches:
    ACTIVEPERL_LOCAL_PATCHES_ENTRY


@INC for perl 5.00503:
    C:/Perl/lib
    C:/Perl/site/lib
    .


Environment for perl 5.00503:
    HOME (unset)
    LANG (unset)
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=C:\Perl\bin;C:\WINNT\system32;c:\usr\local\bin;d:\programme\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\MSDev98\bin;c:\usr\local\lib\vim;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND;C:\THINKPAD;C:\CARDWORK;
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL (unset)


Site configuration information for perl 5.00503:

Configured by root at Thu Jul 22 21:18:56 GMT 1999.

Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 5 subversion 3) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=2.2.10, archname=i586-linux
    uname='linux fatou 2.2.10 #2 smp thu jul 15 15:03:02 mest 1999 i686 unknown '
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', optimize='-O2 -pipe', gccversion=egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)
    cppflags='-Dbool=char -DHAS_BOOL -I/usr/local/include'
    ccflags ='-Dbool=char -DHAS_BOOL -I/usr/local/include'
    stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=undef, usevfork=false
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
    alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
    libs=-lnsl -lndbm -lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lc -lposix -lcrypt
    libc=, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynamic'
    cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'

Locally applied patches:
    


@INC for perl 5.00503:
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/i586-linux
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i586-linux
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005
    .


Environment for perl 5.00503:
    HOME=/home/heitz
    LANG=german
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LC_CTYPE=de_DE
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:/usr/X11R6.1/lib:/usr/ucblib:/usr/openwin/lib:/usr/lib:/opt/lib:/lib:/usr/dt/lib:/opt/netscape
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/ucb:/usr/X11/bin:/opt/netscape:/sbin:/usr/dt/bin:/usr/openwin/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/opt/kde/bin:/usr/local/scripts:/etc:/home/heitz/bin:.:/opt/bin:/usr/local/samba/bin:/awd01/EVS/maketools/solaris:/usr/ucblib
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/bin/tcsh

From @jandubois

On Sun, 7 Nov 1999 23​:28​:11 +0100, heitz@​heitz.de wrote​:

This is a bug report for perl from onestone@​excite.com,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.26 running under perl 5.00503.

Please don't send ActivePerl related bug reports to perl5-porters! The
Readme (under "Getting Started" in the online documentation) contains a
link to the ActivePerl bug database​:

  http​://bugs.activestate.com/ap.bugs

You can also submit bug reports via email to

  mailto​:ap.bugs@​activestate.com

Thanks!

-----------------------------------------------------------------
[Please enter your report here]
I am trying to install packages on NT 4.0 SP5, using PDK 1.2.4 and
ActivePerl521. The symptom looks as if perl wod try to open $PACKETNAME/.packlist/. as a file! here is the output from ppm​:

[...]

Writing C​:\Perl\lib\auto\Image\Size\.packlist\.
Error installing package 'Image-Size'​: Can't open file C​:\Perl\lib\auto\Image\Si
ze\.packlist\.​: Permission denied at C​:/Perl/lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm line 144

It does indeed look as if '\\.' somehow got appended to the .packlist
filename. It doesn't happen for me (with ActivePerl 522). I just
reinstalled 521 to check if that one contained a botched PPM.pm, but it
also worked fine. I've looked at the source (/perl/site/lib/PPM.pm) and
the relevant lines would be​:

| my $packlist = MM->catdir("$Config{installsitearch}/auto", split(/-/, $current_package{'NAME'}), ".packlist");
...
| if ($root ne $inst_root) {
| if ($packlist =~ /\\lib\\(.*)/) {
| $packlist = "$root\\lib\\$1";
| }
...
| ExtUtils​::Install​::install({
| "read" => $packlist, "write" => $packlist,

I don't see how the suffix can get appended (yes, I also looked at
/perl/lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm). But then again, the error doesn't happen
on my system. Did you modify any of the files mentioned above?

The one thing I cannot test here at home is the network installer of the
PDK (I cannot create share names here). Does the error also happen on a
machine that doesn't have the PDK network installer installed?

Anyways, the modules seemed to get installed ok; only the .packlist didn't
get written. This makes it impossible to uninstall the packages via PPM
but the modules should be normally useable.

PPM> quit

it's not as bad as it looks, cause on my linux box everything works fine!-) Only
thing to worry​: I did pay some bux for the activestate version while linux is
free and betterX!-(

Well, you can always download the ActiveState version for free from the
web. I assume you only paid for the PDK, but then your Linux version
didn't include that one for free either.

-Jan