Re: No DBI module when installing Perl 5.14

[Andrew DeFaria <Andrew@DeFaria.com>]

On 07/23/2012 08:41 AM, Reini Urban wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Andrew DeFaria  wrote:
>> I recently updated my Cygwin to 1.7.16. With this came Perl 5.14.2. While
>> the update when fine, after updating I restarted a service that I wrote in
>> Perl that used DBI. To my surprise it failed saying it couldn't find the DBI
>> module. I used cpan to reinstall it but I was wondering if it was
>> intentional that DBI would be missing after upgrading to 5.14.2.
> DBI also did not come with perl-5.10, you installed it by yourself.
>
> Check my update recipe from the announcement mail:
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2012-07/msg00011.html
>
> Update recommendations from 5.10:
> --------------------------------------------------
> Since 5.14 is not installed in parallel to 5.10, all your old 5.10 binary XS
> modules will need to be reinstalled for 5.14.
>
> BEFORE INSTALLATION of this 5.14
> # get the list of your installed 5.10 modules
> $ perl -MExtUtils::Installed \
>     -e'print join("\n", new ExtUtils::Installed->modules)' > module.list
>
> AFTER INSTALLATION of 5.14
> # install all previous modules for 5.10 and older
> $ cpan `cat module.list`
>
> PS: doing the cpanm dance with xargs is not recommended as it forks too much.
> $ perl -MExtUtils::Installed \
>     -e'print join("\n", new ExtUtils::Installed->modules)' | xargs cpan
>
OK, I wasn't paying close attention.

Thanks for the info.

-- 
Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com>
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