Re: problem installing libwww-perl-5.49

Gisle Aas (gisle@activestate.com)
05 Jan 2001 06:20:19 -0800


Simran Gambhir <simran@news.com.au> writes:

> I am trying to install libwww-perl-5.49 but am getting a few errors while
> doing which is rendering the modules unusable for the most part.
> 
> * I downloaded perl 5.6.0 and installed with all default setting for linux
> (currently using redhat 7)

I think this is related to the fact that Redhat 7 broke the Errno
module for Perl-5.6.0.  The following patch is supposed to fix the
problem:

   ftp://ftp.linux.activestate.com/pub/staff/gsar/APC/5.7.1/diffs/7565.gz

Perl-5.6.1-TRIAL1 comes with this patch applied, so you might want to
try an upgrade of perl itself.  Or perhaps downgrade your RedHat...

Regards,
Gisle


> Upon doing a "make install" (even though 'make test' did not pass all tests)
> and having the /usr/bin/GET file installed
> as part of the make install i get:
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> /usr/bin/GET http://localhost/
> <HTML>
> <HEAD><TITLE>An Error Occurred</TITLE></HEAD>
> <BODY>
> <H1>An Error Occurred</h1>
> 500 Can't connect to localhost:80 (Timeout)
> </BODY>
> </HTML>
> ****************************************************************************
> ********************************************************
> 
> I know there is definitely a server running on localhost port 80 (have
> checked via telnet port 80 : GET / ... etc etc etc). 
> I get the same error message for all servers i try... http://www.perl.com/
> ... everything... 
> 
> Can anyone shed some light my way and let me know why this might be
> happening (i know its not just the way i install
> perl as it was happening with the default perl install that comes with
> RedHat as well). Short of reinstalling linux altogether
> (as it might be some c library?) i don't know what else to try... 
> 
> kind regards, 
> 
> simran.