Closed Bug 367401 Opened 19 years ago Closed 19 years ago

MozillaBuild needs a few more perl modules

Categories

(Firefox Build System :: MozillaBuild, task)

Product:
Firefox Build System
Component:
MozillaBuild
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
task
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: sayrer, Unassigned)

Details

Using CPAN is buggy without Net::FTP installed. It would be nice if LWP were there too--I could use it for the mochitest server.
Robert, I've never installed a perl module before: 1) how do I get them? 2) do they need to be compiled, or are they pure-perl? (or are there precompiled binaries) 3) how do I install them?
http://search.cpan.org/~gbarr/libnet-1.19/ Is where libnet lives. The compile/installation process is the same for all modules, whether pure perl or not. perl Makefile.PL make make test make install Installing libnet seems to allow CPAN to work correctly. I couldn't get LWP to pass its tests, so I guess we can skip that for now.
Oh, and they end up in /lib/perl5/...
After discussion, we're not going to do this, but focus on doing new build stuff in python, which has a nicer/more complete standard library.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Resolution: FIXED → WONTFIX
Mass re-assign of MozillaBuild bugs into mozilla.org:MozillaBuild
Component: Build Config → MozillaBuild
Product: Core → mozilla.org
Version: Trunk → other
QA Contact: build-config → mozillabuild
Product: mozilla.org → Firefox Build System
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