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sguenz

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Registered: 2008-03-11

Posts: 18

New update breaks Perl

The last update installs Perl 5.14. This is great, but it breaks everything if you have any Perl modules installed via CPAN.
To remedy the problem you'll have to reinstall all of the modules:

sudo perl -MCPAN -e upgrade

That should fix it.
It may be a very long update.

Last edited by sguenz (2011-07-01 04:39:41)

sead

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Registered: 2009-06-30

Posts: 8

Re: New update breaks Perl

That's why you should avoid to install perl modules using CPAN, you'd better package it. A lot of perl modules are already packaged for Arch ;-)

ConnorBehan

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From: Long Island NY

Registered: 2007-07-05

Posts: 1,359

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Re: New update breaks Perl

Perl4::CoreLibs is not yet packaged for Arch, is it?

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franziskus

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From: Germany

Registered: 2011-04-03

Posts: 3

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Re: New update breaks Perl

When I do

perl -MCPAN -e upgrade

I get this:

perl: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/auto/Cwd/Cwd.so: undefined symbol: Perl_Gthr_key_ptr

How can I fix this?

[Update]
If I downgrade to perl 5.12 everything works again, I have run CPAN and upgraded succesfully all modules.
But when I upgrade to perl 5.14 again, I get the above error again.

Last edited by franziskus (2011-07-03 09:44:30)

karamorf

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Registered: 2011-07-03

Posts: 2

Re: New update breaks Perl

That didn't work at all ... move along now.

Last edited by karamorf (2011-07-03 21:53:05)