I had an interesting problem today when installing HTML::Parser. On my dev server it compiled fine, with no problems. But trying to install it on the production machine gave me an error during make along the lines of "can't find
After a bit of googling, I found instructions at http://www.qitc.net/support/mailscanner/ which explained that I needed to touch a few files and perl would be fine. I did and everything went smoothly from there.
Now my questions are: why did I get the error on one machine and not the other? And what is this opnames.h file and why is it needed? Terminally curious minds want to know...
MakeMaker Bug (Score:2, Informative)
More details here [cpan.org] and here [develooper.com]
Do the dev and production servers use the same version of perl?
Re:MakeMaker Bug (Score:1)
But of course! :-) That is one of the things that was so perplexing to me.
"Perl users are the Greatful Dead fans of computer science." --slashdot comment