Re: [Bug-gnupod] Installing gnupod and perl

[Heinrich Langos]

On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 05:21:26AM -0700, Al Steffens wrote:
> At the ./configure step Perl must be upgraded (for slackware 12.1):
>
>    perl -MCPAN -e 'install Digest::SHA1'
>    perl -MCPAN -e 'install Unicode::String'
>    perl -MCPAN -e 'install MP3::Info'
>    perl -MCPAN -e 'install LWP::UserAgent'
>
> but the LWP::UserAgent upgrade always fails with "no object method  
> 'install' for LWP::UserAgent."  I just continue and type make and   
> gnupod installs and works anyway. This seems like a bug in the module  
> UserAgent and it seems that it is not needed by gnupod.  Why not "fix"  
> gnupod to not load this module.

Hi Al,

Thank you for bringing this to my attention. It seems like LWP::UserAgent
and HTTP::Request where only needed by the long gone lastfm support.
I removed that dependencies in the CVS version.

cheers
-henrik