[GNC] Finance::Quote failed to initialize

[John Ralls]

Bruce,

Interesting, I didn’t know that MyCpan.pm defaulted make install to run under sudo. FWIW I’ve been running sudo cpan on macOS for almost 20 years with no ill effects.

I just tested to make sure it worked without sudo (after chowning  ~/.cpan), and it didn’t; it wouldn’t have worked with sudo either:

t/02-pod-coverage.t ........ Can't locate Pod/Find.pm in @INC (you may need to install the Pod::Find module) (@INC contains: /Users/john/.cpan/build/Finance-Quote-1.63-1/blib/lib /Users/john/.cpan/build/Finance-Quote-1.63-1/blib/arch /Library/Perl/5.34/darwin-thread-multi-2level /Library/Perl/5.34 /Network/Library/Perl/5.34/darwin-thread-multi-2level /Network/Library/Perl/5.34 /Library/Perl/Updates/5.34.1/darwin-thread-multi-2level /Library/Perl/Updates/5.34.1 /System/Library/Perl/5.34/darwin-thread-multi-2level /System/Library/Perl/5.34 /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.34/darwin-thread-multi-2level /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.34 .) at /Library/Perl/5.34/Pod/Coverage.pm line 6.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /Library/Perl/5.34/Pod/Coverage.pm line 6.
Compilation failed in require at /Library/Perl/5.34/Test/Pod/Coverage.pm line 86.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /Library/Perl/5.34/Test/Pod/Coverage.pm line 86.
Compilation failed in require at t/02-pod-coverage.t line 5.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at t/02-pod-coverage.t line 5.
t/02-pod-coverage.t ........ Dubious, test returned 2 (wstat 512, 0x200)
No subtests run

And trying to install Pod::Find fails because
Result: PASS
  MAREKR/Pod-Parser-1.67.tar.gz
  /usr/bin/make test -- OK
Running make install for MAREKR/Pod-Parser-1.67.tar.gz
Manifying 1 pod document
Manifying 6 pod documents
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ERROR: Can't create '/usr/bin'
Do not have write permissions on '/usr/bin'
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 at -e line 1.
make: *** [pure_perl_install] Error 1
  MAREKR/Pod-Parser-1.67.tar.gz
  sudo /usr/bin/make install  -- NOT OK

 Why is Pod-Parser trying to install something in /usr/bin instead of /usr/local/bin?

Probably not Flavio’s problem (at least not yet), he doesn’t seem to have gotten anything installed.

Regards,
John Ralls


> On Oct 5, 2024, at 18:31, Bruce Schuck <bschuck at asgard-systems.com> wrote:
> 
> On 10/5/24 5:39 PM, John Ralls wrote:
> 
>> As I explained in my previous, cpan needs to write to /Library/
>> Perl/3.40/, a system directory, so it need to be run with sudo. Of
>> course doing that causes the ownership of ~/.cpan to be root.
> 
> John,
> 
> I *know* how CPAN works. Typically the default MyConfig.pm (~/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm) will use sudo for the "make_install_make_command" and "mbuild_install_build_command" commands. This allows cpan to write to the system directories needed. But a user's ~/.cpan tree should always be writable by the user. Running "sudo cpan ..." ends up making a mess of user's cpan directory and leaves files and directories the user cannot write to, and BF's issue trying to run "cpan Finance::Quote" is an example. I assumed the install FQ tool supplied with GnuCash did not run "sudo cpan" and instead depended on sudo being called to execute the install. I can assure you, most long time Perl monks would chastise those who execute "sudo cpan".
> 
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9409888/when-using-cpan-in-linux-ubuntu-should-i-run-it-using-sudo-as-root-or-as-my-de
> 
> I'm guessing the FQ install tool uses "sudo cpan" to avoid issues where users may have changed their cpan config from the default. But again, this could lead to other problems. Example if someone had set their cpan config to build into $PERL5LIB, typically under their $HOME and done to avoid needing root privs. Running "sudo cpan ..." in that case would install root owned modules in a directory space the user expects to own everything underneath.