[mv] Interchange

["Glover George" <geg2@ra.msstate.edu>]

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Would this list be pertinent to Interchange or not?  If not is there one?  I
just played with both the latest minivend package and the developer's
release.  The developer's release is certainly aptly named...DEVELOPER's
release.  First of all the first couple of times I tried it I could get the
perl modules via lynx.  Now when I try (after deleting everything!) it
simply asks me do I want to get them and when I answer yes it does nothing
but go to the next question without trying to get the packages.  There are a
LOT of error messages about cannot find something or other int @INC.  The
first time I run perl Makefile.pl it says it can't find HTML/Entities even
though it's in the extra/ directory.  Even giving perl the -Iextra/ doesn't
work the first time.  However, if you run it a second time it doesn't
complain but I don't think it finds it.

At any rate, once I get it installed (and yes, i have made it install a
couple times) I can't get the barry demo to configure.  It will configure
with the native database but not the postgresql support.  The typical errors
are something like can't the demo files -- check permissions.  I am running
as root and because of the frustration changed every damn directory that I
could think that it was wanting to 777!  It still complains about
permissions.  The time I got it to make it past there and makecat barry,
when I went to run minivend -r it said that it couldn't find something like
Vend::DBI::create.  What's this all about.  Is it just not in the path, do I
need some other packages.

Sorry to ask so many questions but I know absolutely squat about Perl.  I
can run circles around C++ but never messed with perl (although I CERTAINLY
plan too...but there's all those different languages to learn also...Tcl/tk,
bash, perl, sed, awk, ...).  From what I can tell this is a very robust
package...I just wish I could understand it.  Any hints on GOOD resources
and not just the README files?

Thanks.


Glover George
System/Network Administrator
Gulf Sales & Supply, Inc.
(228)-762-0268
geg2@ra.msstate.edu

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