Recent Fedora 7 Update Breaks Perl Compress::Zlib

[Lonni J Friedman]

Is that different than perl Compress-raw-zlib or perl IO-Compress-Zlib ?

On 10/1/07, James McDonald <james at jamesmcdonald.id.au> wrote:
> I just did an yum update to Fedora 7 and rebooted seems that amavisd
> wasn't starting the complaint was about Compress::Zlib not loading.
>
> Long story short when I ran perl -e 'use Compress::Zlib' to test it
> could load. It threw up an error message as shown following
>
> "|is only avaliable with the XS version at
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Compress/Zlib.pm line 9"
> |
>
> |Which is this "use Scalar::Util qw(dualvar);" line
> |
>
> I tried to do an update using "perl -MCPAN -e shell" but the error
> stopped the shell completing also complaining about a gzopen subroutine
> not working.
>
> A quick google found a solution - download and manually install
> Scalar-List-Utils
>
> wget
> http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/G/GB/GBARR/Scalar-List-Utils-1.19.tar.gz
>
> tar xzvf Scalar-List-Utils-1.19.tar.gz
> cd Scalar-List-Utils-1.19
> perl Makefile.PL
> make test install
>
> I think the guy posting the fix was this Peter Scott
> http://www.perlmedic.com/ http://www.perldebugged.com/
>
> Just something to warey of.
>
>
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