Webmaster Forum / Perl / Modules / November 2006

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I am having problems installing DBI.
# perl Makefile.PL runs ok but the when I enter # make I get the
following:
gcc -c    -D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS -D_REENTRANT -fno-strict-aliasing

This is in regards to my previous long winded question regarding
installing DBD::Oracle
Well, I started from scratch and just untarred the binaries.
I am running HP 11.00 B.11.00 U 9000/785

I've just uploaded a new version of Geo::Gpx. My permissions for  
Geo::Gpx are listed as 'first-come'. The previous version of Geo::Gpx  
was included in Geo::Cache.
My new version provides legacy support for the functionality in that  

Hello. I'm new here, but started to use Perl. I need to install few
modules, such as Win32::API. This one, and some other just can't
install. The problem is like this:
Clausal Language 5.81.16

Two questions for this mac os x 10.4 users
one how do I list all of the Net::? modules? {I was looking for
net::dns but it's not loaded}
two Is there another module that will let me query nameservers for mx,

I've just moved my Inline::C2XS module to InlineX::C2XS (after a bit of
discussion on the Inline mailing list) as it should never have been in the
"Inline" namespace to begin with.
So now I need to "deprecate" Inline::C2XS - so that those who find it on

I patched Class::Singleton because when objects were being stored in an  instance of it, their destructors weren't being
called when Perl terminates. Also incorporated is a CVS tag patch so that a "cvs export -kv" doesn't cause syntax errors.
Unfortunately the author (Andy ...

I have installed:
http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/gcc-4.0.2-11.00.sd.bz
&
http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/perl-5.8.8-dor-11.00.sd.bz

Not sure if this is the right place to ask, if not I'll be happy to be
redirected.
I installed an updated OS recently (Mandriva 2007) and have had trouble
installing perl modules since. I initially had a lot of 'no rule to make

I'm interested in writing a perl script that checks an xml document for
proper element closure only.  There is no dtd associated, so this is
really the only type validation I could think of...  Is there an easy
way to do this via perl?  All I'm looking for is a simple 0 or 1 return

I am not able to use the functions RowRange() and ColRange() available
with the package Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::Worksheet. They return value
0 and -1 indicating that the worksheet is empty (which is definitely
not the case) and not the correct values for the range. Has anyone

I'm having problems using CPAN under ActiveState Perl (version looks
like 5.6.1 as far as I can tell) on Windows XP Home.  I installed
ActiveState Perl as straightforwardly as possible -- double-click on
the installer icon and let it run -- on an otherwise Perl-less machine

I'm trying to use Devel::StackTrace 1.13
I have a module that I want to limit it's scope to reporting just one
module.
I can't even get it to limit according to the docs.

I'm attempting to write one of my first perl programs. It is to
interact with an internal web service. I'm having something basic going
wrong:
use Frontier::Client ;