Trouble installing Finance::Quote on Mac OSX Yosemite

[Daniel Dickinson]

Thanks all for your replies.  I do indeed have Xcode and command line tools installed, and I've run plenty of other Perl code without any issues.

I did a little more digging.  Here is the complete output from running sudo perl /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gnc-fq-update:


Reading '/Users/danieldickinson/.cpan/Metadata'

  Database was generated on Sun, 06 Aug 2017 20:17:02 GMT

Running install for module 'Date::Manip'

Running make for S/SB/SBECK/Date-Manip-6.59.tar.gz

Checksum for /Users/danieldickinson/.cpan/sources/authors/id/S/SB/SBECK/Date-Manip-6.59.tar.gz ok

---- Unsatisfied dependencies detected during ----

----       SBECK/Date-Manip-6.59.tar.gz       ----

    ExtUtils::MakeMaker [build_requires]

Running make test

  Make had some problems, won't test

  Delayed until after prerequisites

Running make install

  Make had some problems, won't install

  Delayed until after prerequisites

Running install for module 'ExtUtils::MakeMaker'

Running make for B/BI/BINGOS/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-7.30.tar.gz

Checksum for /Users/danieldickinson/.cpan/sources/authors/id/B/BI/BINGOS/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-7.30.tar.gz ok


  CPAN.pm: Building B/BI/BINGOS/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-7.30.tar.gz


Using included version of CPAN::Meta (2.143240) as it is newer than the installed version (2.133380).

Using included version of CPAN::Meta::Requirements (2.131) as it is newer than the installed version (2.122).

Using included version of CPAN::Meta::YAML (0.011) as it is newer than the installed version (0.008).

Using included version of ExtUtils::Install (2.06) as it is newer than the installed version (1.59).

Using included version of ExtUtils::Manifest (1.70) as it is newer than the installed version (1.63).

Using included version of JSON::PP (2.27203) as it is newer than the installed version (2.27202).

Using included version of Parse::CPAN::Meta (1.4414) as it is newer than the installed version (1.4404).

Checking if your kit is complete...

Looks good

Generating a Unix-style Makefile

Writing Makefile for ExtUtils::MakeMaker

Writing MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json

cp lib/ExtUtils/Command/MM.pm blib/lib/ExtUtils/Command/MM.pm

cp lib/ExtUtils/MM_QNX.pm blib/lib/ExtUtils/MM_QNX.pm

cp lib/ExtUtils/MM_NW5.pm blib/lib/ExtUtils/MM_NW5.pm

cp inc/ExtUtils/Packlist.pm blib/lib/ExtUtils/Packlist.pm

cp inc/CPAN/Meta/Converter.pm blib/lib/CPAN/Meta/Converter.pm

cp lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker/Tutorial.pod blib/lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker/Tutorial.pod

cp inc/CPAN/Meta/YAML.pm blib/lib/CPAN/Meta/YAML.pm

cp lib/ExtUtils/MM_AIX.pm blib/lib/ExtUtils/MM_AIX.pm

cp lib/ExtUtils/MM_Darwin.pm blib/lib/ExtUtils/MM_Darwin.pm

cp lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker/version/regex.pm blib/lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker/version/regex.pm

cp lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker/Locale.pm blib/lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker/Locale.pm

cp inc/ExtUtils/Installed.pm blib/lib/ExtUtils/Installed.pm

cp inc/CPAN/Meta/Merge.pm blib/lib/CPAN/Meta/Merge.pm

cp inc/ExtUtils/Manifest.pm blib/lib/ExtUtils/Manifest.pm

cp lib/ExtUtils/Liblist/Kid.pm blib/lib/ExtUtils/Liblist/Kid.pm

cp inc/CPAN/Meta/Prereqs.pm blib/lib/CPAN/Meta/Prereqs.pm

cp inc/Parse/CPAN/Meta.pm blib/lib/Parse/CPAN/Meta.pm

cp inc/CPAN/Meta/Feature.pm blib/lib/CPAN/Meta/Feature.pm

cp lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker/version.pm blib/lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker/version.pm

cp lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm blib/lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm

cp lib/ExtUtils/MM_Win32.pm blib/lib/ExtUtils/MM_Win32.pm

cp lib/ExtUtils/MM_Cygwin.pm blib/lib/ExtUtils/MM_Cygwin.pm

cp lib/ExtUtils/MM_MacOS.pm blib/lib/ExtUtils/MM_MacOS.pm

cp inc/JSON/PP.pm blib/lib/JSON/PP.pm

cp lib/ExtUtils/MY.pm blib/lib/ExtUtils/MY.pm

cp inc/CPAN/Meta.pm blib/lib/CPAN/Meta.pm

cp lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm blib/lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm

cp lib/ExtUtils/MM_VOS.pm blib/lib/ExtUtils/MM_VOS.pm

cp inc/JSON/PP/Boolean.pm blib/lib/JSON/PP/Boolean.pm

cp inc/CPAN/Meta/Requirements.pm blib/lib/CPAN/Meta/Requirements.pm

cp lib/ExtUtils/testlib.pm blib/lib/ExtUtils/testlib.pm

cp lib/ExtUtils/Mkbootstrap.pm blib/lib/ExtUtils/Mkbootstrap.pm

cp lib/ExtUtils/MM_DOS.pm blib/lib/ExtUtils/MM_DOS.pm

cp lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm blib/lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm

cp inc/ExtUtils/Install.pm blib/lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm

cp lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker/FAQ.pod blib/lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker/FAQ.pod

cp inc/CPAN/Meta/Spec.pm blib/lib/CPAN/Meta/Spec.pm

cp lib/ExtUtils/MM.pm blib/lib/ExtUtils/MM.pm

cp lib/ExtUtils/MM_UWIN.pm blib/lib/ExtUtils/MM_UWIN.pm

cp lib/ExtUtils/MM_Win95.pm blib/lib/ExtUtils/MM_Win95.pm

cp lib/ExtUtils/MM_Any.pm blib/lib/ExtUtils/MM_Any.pm

cp lib/ExtUtils/Command.pm blib/lib/ExtUtils/Command.pm

cp inc/CPAN/Meta/History.pm blib/lib/CPAN/Meta/History.pm

cp inc/CPAN/Meta/Validator.pm blib/lib/CPAN/Meta/Validator.pm

cp lib/ExtUtils/MM_OS2.pm blib/lib/ExtUtils/MM_OS2.pm

cp lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker/version/vpp.pm blib/lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker/version/vpp.pm

cp lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker/Config.pm blib/lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker/Config.pm

cp inc/ExtUtils/MANIFEST.SKIP blib/lib/ExtUtils/MANIFEST.SKIP

cp lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm blib/lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm

cp lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm blib/lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm

cp lib/ExtUtils/MM_BeOS.pm blib/lib/ExtUtils/MM_BeOS.pm

cp bin/instmodsh blib/script/instmodsh

"/usr/bin/perl" "-Iblib/arch" "-Iblib/lib" -MExtUtils::MY -e 'MY->fixin(shift)' -- blib/script/instmodsh

Manifying 1 pod document

Manifying 46 pod documents

  BINGOS/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-7.30.tar.gz

  /usr/bin/make -- OK

'YAML' not installed, will not store persistent state

Running make test

PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 "/usr/bin/perl" "-Iblib/arch" "-Iblib/lib" "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-MTest::Harness" "-e" "undef *Test::Harness::Switches; test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t

t/00compile.t ............. ok

t/01perl_bugs.t ........... ok

t/02-xsdynamic.t ..........

So it looks like the problem is not Finance::Quote at all - instead, it's getting hung up on Date::Manip because it can't find ExtUtils::MakeMaker, and the install of ExtUtils::MakeMaker is what's hanging.  However, I do indeed have MakeMaker installed:


$ cpan -D ExtUtils::MakeMaker

Reading '/Users/myname/.cpan/Metadata'

  Database was generated on Sun, 06 Aug 2017 20:17:02 GMT

ExtUtils::MakeMaker

-------------------------------------------------------------------------

Writes Makefiles for extensions

B/BI/BINGOS/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-7.30.tar.gz

/System/Library/Perl/5.18/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm

Installed: 6.66

CPAN:      7.30  Not up to date

Michael G Schwern (MSCHWERN)

mschwern at cpan.org

I don't understand why the Date::Manip install can't find it.  Does anyone know how to fix this?  Thanks for any help.
Dan