On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 05:21:19PM -0300, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > > It has apparently built and installed just fine, but it complains about > > a missing Pod/Usage.pm when I try to run it. This makes me wonder if it > > depends on perl 5.6, since that file exists in the perl-modules package > > in woody/sid, but does not exist at all in potato. > > Yes: > > Depends: perl (>= 5.6.0-16), perl-modules, dpkg (>= 1.8.1) I can read the Debian package Depends line just fine. That doesn't necessarily imply that that's the only version of perl that the upstream source will work with. I was not able to find reference to a specific version of perl in the upstream docs, and the fact that it built and installed just fine under potato certainly made it look like it could be made to work. > > So... Does anybody know if it can be made to work on potato? > > Something is being worked on at Alcove Labs, but I have no information > on that --0 just saw a "spamassassin for potato" package there: What I ended up doing (this may be helpful for other who want SpamAssassin but don't want to upgrade) was to install perl 5.6 in its own private directory (/usr/local/perl-5.6.1 in this case). I then used that version of perl to build spamassassin, and everything works fine. /usr/bin/perl is still Debian's perl, but /usr/local/perl-5.6.1/bin/perl is the one required by SpamAssassin. noah -- _______________________________________________________ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html
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