help - macports modules not found?

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Fri Jun 11 09:11:37 PDT 2010


On 2010-6-12 01:53 , Johnson, Matthew wrote:
> Hi all-
> I have searched everywhere, but I am new to perl and can't seem to find the answer. I installed macports 1.8.2 on 10.6.3 (xcode 3.2.2 installed), installed some modules using "sudo port install ..." but when I run a perl program I get, e.g.,
> 
> Can't locate Cairo.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.9/darwin-2level /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.9 /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl /opt/local/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.9/darwin-2level /opt/local/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.9 /opt/local/lib/perl5/vendor_perl /opt/local/lib/perl5/5.8.9/darwin-2level /opt/local/lib/perl5/5.8.9 .) at ./HaploPainter1.043.pl line 21.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./HaploPainter1.043.pl line 21.
> 
> The module is installed:
> $ port installed
> The following ports are currently installed:
>  atk @1.30.0_0 (active)
>  autoconf @2.65_1 (active)
>  automake @1.11.1_0 (active)
>  bzip2 @1.0.5_3+darwin (active)
>  cairo @1.8.10_0+macosx (active)
>  ...
> 
> $ port dir cairo
> /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/ports/graphics/cairo
> 
> But the actual file Cairo.pm is nowhere to be found. (locate Cairo.pm gives nothing. Also, this command I found to list installed perl mods doesn't list it:http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/how-to-list-all-installed-perl-modules-216603/ )
> 
> Also, I've made sure I'm using the macports perl by changing the first line of the script to #!/opt/local/bin/perl and tried running it specifically from the command line as "/opt/local/bin/perl <script>"
> 
> I feel like I'm missing a major step somewhere, and would really appreciate some guidance.

Cairo is not a perl module. You probably want p5-cairo.

- Josh


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