Finance::Quote Install Problem on Mac OSX Mountain Lion

[Deane Yamane]

I have the exact same problem. 
John, where, when and how do I input the lines starting with: cd ~/.cpan/build/SBECK-DklzIi/Date-Manip-6.36 ? I tried Terminal NO JOY. 

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On Nov 4, 2012, at 1:26 AM, Matt Braunstein <matt_braunstein at yahoo.com> wrote:

> OK, so I tried your commands below, but they did not work. I've been upgrading OS's since Snow Leopard, so I decided to do a fresh OS install. I was afraid that there may something specific to my computer that would be causing the issue. I also wanted to make sure anything that may have been lingering was not messing anything else up.
> 
> It still gave me the error after the fresh install. But it also mentioned Test::Inter was not found. So I logged onto CPAN and installed this package. Still would not work. Then I deleting the SBECK-* directories. Now I ran the script and had no issues. It now works. I don't know what part of this did the trick, but all is well now. Thank you for your help.
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> From: John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>
> To: Matt Braunstein <matt_braunstein at yahoo.com> 
> Cc: John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> 
> Sent: Friday, November 2, 2012 6:03 PM
> Subject: Re: Finance::Quote Install Problem on Mac OSX Mountain Lion
> 
> 
> On Nov 2, 2012, at 2:54 PM, Matt Braunstein <matt_braunstein at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> From: John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>
>> To: schmatt <matt_braunstein at yahoo.com> 
>> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org 
>> Sent: Friday, November 2, 2012 4:36 PM
>> Subject: Re: Finance::Quote Install Problem on Mac OSX Mountain Lion
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Nov 2, 2012, at 5:44 AM, schmatt <matt_braunstein at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I'm having issues trying to install the finance::quote module. I have
>>>> installed Xcode with the command line tools. I run the script via the
>>>> command line. I understand there are write permission issues by just running
>>>> directly from the .dmg. I get the following output.
>>>> 
>>>> Going to read '/x/.cpan/Metadata'
>>>>   Database was generated on Thu, 01 Nov 2012 07:43:05 GMT
>>>> LWP is up to date (6.04).
>>>> Running install for module 'Date::Manip'
>>>> Running make for S/SB/SBECK/Date-Manip-6.36.tar.gz
>>>> Checksum for /x/.cpan/sources/authors/id/S/SB/SBECK/Date-Manip-6.36.tar.gz
>>>> ok
>>>> Package seems to come without Makefile.PL.
>>>>   (The test -f "/x/.cpan/build/SBECK-EQjQt6/Makefile.PL" returned false.)
>>>>   Writing one on our own (setting NAME to DateManip)
>>>> 
>>>>   CPAN.pm: Going to build S/SB/SBECK/Date-Manip-6.36.tar.gz
>>>> 
>>>> Checking if your kit is complete...
>>>> Looks good
>>>> Warning: prerequisite Test::Inter 0 not found.
>>>> Bareword found where operator expected at ./Makefile.PL line 1, near "30
>>>> mtime"
>>>>      (Missing operator before mtime?)
>>>> Number found where operator expected at ./Makefile.PL line 2, near "30"
>>>>      (Missing semicolon on previous line?)
>>>> Bareword found where operator expected at ./Makefile.PL line 2, near "30
>>>> atime"
>>>>      (Missing operator before atime?)
>>>> Number found where operator expected at ./Makefile.PL line 3, near "30"
>>>>      (Missing semicolon on previous line?)
>>>> Bareword found where operator expected at ./Makefile.PL line 3, near "30
>>>> ctime"
>>>>      (Missing operator before ctime?)
>>>> ERROR from evaluation of
>>>> /x/.cpan/build/SBECK-EQjQt6/Date-Manip-6.36/Makefile.PL: ERROR from
>>>> evaluation of
>>>> /x/.cpan/build/SBECK-EQjQt6/Date-Manip-6.36/PaxHeaders.11917/Makefile.PL:
>>>> syntax error at ./Makefile.PL line 1, near "30 mtime"
>>>> Warning: No success on command[/usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL]
>>>> 'YAML' not installed, will not store persistent state
>>>>   SBECK/Date-Manip-6.36.tar.gz
>>>>   /usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL -- NOT OK
>>>> Running make test
>>>>   Make had some problems, won't test
>>>> Running make install
>>>>   Make had some problems, won't install
>>>> HTML::Parser is up to date (3.69).
>>>> HTML::TableExtract is up to date (2.11).
>>>> Crypt::SSLeay is up to date (0.64).
>>>> Finance::Quote is up to date (1.18).
>>>> 
>>>> Any help with why this will not install properly would be appreciated. I've
>>>> never had a problem prior to upgrading to mountain lion.
>>> 
>>> Looks to me like the author of Date::Manip made a bad Makefile.PL. It looks like you're updating, and that you have an otherwise current installation. Is F::Q failing to run?
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> John Ralls
>> 
>> Yes, the finance::quote module stopped working once I upgraded to Mountain Lion. I realized that I needed to re-install Xcode, because of the upgrade. Ever since then, I have been having this problem when I tried to update the finance::quote module.
>> 
> 
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> I had a look at the package and found that the problem can be fixed pretty easily:
> 
> cd ~/.cpan/build/SBECK-DklzIi/Date-Manip-6.36
> sudo rm PaxHeaders.11917/Makefile.PL 
> perl Makefile.PL
> make
> sudo make install
> 
> I've filed a bug on CPAN.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
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