{"id":237,"date":"2007-11-30T02:34:07","date_gmt":"2007-11-29T17:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/30\/fedora-core-rhel-dont-seem-to-come-with-up-to-date-versions-of-scalarutil\/"},"modified":"2007-11-30T02:34:07","modified_gmt":"2007-11-29T17:34:07","slug":"fedora-core-rhel-dont-seem-to-come-with-up-to-date-versions-of-scalarutil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/30\/fedora-core-rhel-dont-seem-to-come-with-up-to-date-versions-of-scalarutil\/","title":{"rendered":"Fedora Core \/ RHEL don&#8217;t seem to come with up-to-date versions of Scalar::Util"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I ran into this problem once before on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux machine, and now I am having the same problem on my Fedora Core (7 I think) machine.  The problem is that CPAN is unable to install various things, in particular Bundle::CPAN, because:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You don&#8217;t have the XS version of Scalar::Util<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have also run into problems where I get an error message like:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Weak references are not implemented in the version of perl<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Both of these can be fixed by using CPAN to install an up-to-date version of Scalar::Util:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>perl -MCPAN -e shell<br \/>\nforce install Scalar::Util<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You might have to force the install if you have an up-to-date version of Scalar::Util (which I did) but it had been compiled without the proper options to support XS.  <\/p>\n<p><P><\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in finding out more a simple search should turn up lots more information.  I find it shocking that modern Perl distributions can be around that leave out such a commonly-used feature.  Hopefully Redhat \/ Fedora will get around to fixing it in their next release (and if not, at least I&#8217;ve left myself a note here.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ran into this problem once before on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux machine, and now I am having the same problem on my Fedora Core (7 I think) machine. The problem is that CPAN is unable to install various things, in particular Bundle::CPAN, because: You don&#8217;t have the XS version of Scalar::Util I have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}