[GNC] Finance::Quote failed to initialize

[Bruce Schuck]

On 10/5/24 8:07 PM, John Ralls wrote:

> 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.

If it's the only way you use it, not a problem. But I'm often switching 
between local::lib and sudo installs with PERL5LIB getting changed.

> 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:

> 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?

That's an odd one. It could be something in Pod-Parser's makefile. And 
if I recall, OSX won't let you install under /usr/bin even with root privs.

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

I really want to find out what change in F::Q a few years back made the 
amount of dependencies explode.

Thanks.

Bruce S.