Long time reader, first time poster. Big, appreciative thanks for everyone's collective questioning and answering here and at stackoverflow, it's helped me quite a lot over the time I've been learning answers through these sites! Apologies in advance if I didn't search hard enough on posts already up on this
site to find out what I could do about this issue, but I thought I'd just reach out for the sake of trying at least once.
I've experienced this issue while starting up my macports-installed version of irssi:
13:25 -!- Irssi: Error in script dispatch:
13:25 Can't locate lib.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
/opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12.4/darwin-multi-2level
/opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12.4
/opt/local/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.12.4/darwin-multi-2level
/opt/local/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.12.4
/opt/local/lib/perl5/5.12.4/darwin-multi-2level
/opt/local/lib/perl5/5.12.4
/opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12.3/darwin-multi-2level
/opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12.3 /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl
/opt/local/lib/perl5/vendor_perl .) at (eval 18) line 1.
13:25 BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 18) line 1.
13:25
Huh, strange. I looked into it a bit:
[email protected] /opt/local/lib/perl5
?- find . -name "lib.pm" -ls
14673887 16 -r--r--r-- 1 root admin 6853 25 Jun 23:39 ./5.12.4/darwin-thread-multi- 2level/lib.pm
[email protected] /opt/local/lib/perl5
?- l 5.12.4/darwin-thread-multi-2level
total 1864
drwxr-xr-x 55 root admin 1870 28 Jun 19:28 .
drwxr-xr-x 158 root admin 5372 28 Jun 19:28 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 177814 25 Jun 23:39 .packlist
drwxr-xr-x 6 root admin 204 28 Jun 19:28 B
-r--r--r-- 1 root admin 25714 25 Jun 23:39 B.pm
drwxr-xr-x 64 root admin 2176 28 Jun 19:28 CORE
drwxr-xr-x 3 root admin 102 28 Jun 19:28 Compress
-r--r--r-- 1 root admin 3000 25 Jun 23:39 Config.pm
-r--r--r-- 1 root admin 228094 25 Jun 23:39 Config.pod
-r--r--r-- 1 root admin 409 25 Jun 23:39 Config_git.pl
-r--r--r-- 1 root admin 38759 25 Jun 23:39 Config_heavy.pl
-r--r--r-- 1 root admin 21174 25 Jun 23:39 Cwd.pm
-r--r--r-- 1 root admin 63535 25 Jun 23:39 DB_File.pm
drwxr-xr-x 3 root admin 102 28 Jun 19:28 Data
drwxr-xr-x 5 root admin 170 28 Jun 19:28 Devel
drwxr-xr-x 4 root admin 136 28 Jun 19:28 Digest
-r--r--r-- 1 root admin 25185 25 Jun 23:39 DynaLoader.pm
drwxr-xr-x 22 root admin 748 28 Jun 19:28 Encode
-r--r--r-- 1 root admin 29731 25 Jun 23:39 Encode.pm
-r--r--r-- 1 root admin 6736 25 Jun 23:39 Errno.pm
-r--r--r-- 1 root admin 5445 25 Jun 23:39 Fcntl.pm
drwxr-xr-x 5 root admin 170 28 Jun 19:28 File
drwxr-xr-x 3 root admin 102 28 Jun 19:28 Filter
-r--r--r-- 1 root admin 1819 25 Jun 23:39 GDBM_File.pm
drwxr-xr-x 4 root admin 136 28 Jun 19:28 Hash
drwxr-xr-x 3 root admin 102 28 Jun 19:28 I18N
drwxr-xr-x 11 root admin 374 28 Jun 19:28 IO
-r--r--r-- 1 root admin 1404 25 Jun 23:39 IO.pm
drwxr-xr-x 6 root admin 204 28 Jun 19:28 IPC
drwxr-xr-x 4 root admin 136 28 Jun 19:28 List
drwxr-xr-x 4 root admin 136 28 Jun 19:28 MIME
drwxr-xr-x 3 root admin 102 28 Jun 19:28 Math
-r--r--r-- 1 root admin 2519 25 Jun 23:39 NDBM_File.pm
-r--r--r-- 1 root admin 4208 25 Jun 23:39 O.pm
-r--r--r-- 1 root admin 15563 25 Jun 23:39 Opcode.pm
-r--r--r-- 1 root admin 21011 25 Jun 23:39 POSIX.pm
-r--r--r-- 1 root admin 58962 25 Jun 23:39 POSIX.pod
drwxr-xr-x 5 root admin 170 28 Jun 19:28 PerlIO
-r--r--r-- 1 root admin 2515 25 Jun 23:39 SDBM_File.pm
drwxr-xr-x 4 root admin 136 28 Jun 19:28 Scalar
-r--r--r-- 1 root admin 10837 25 Jun 23:39 Socket.pm
-r--r--r-- 1 root admin 41003 25 Jun 23:39 Storable.pm
drwxr-xr-x 4 root admin 136 28 Jun 19:28 Sys
drwxr-xr-x 3 root admin 102 28 Jun 19:28 Text
drwxr-xr-x 5 root admin 170 28 Jun 19:28 Time
drwxr-xr-x 3 root admin 102 28 Jun 19:28 Unicode
-r--r--r-- 1 root admin 14462 25 Jun 23:39 attributes.pm
drwxr-xr-x 38 root admin 1292 28 Jun 19:28 auto
-r--r--r-- 1 root admin 19892 25 Jun 23:39 encoding.pm
-r--r--r-- 1 root admin 6853 25 Jun 23:39 lib.pm
-r--r--r-- 1 root admin 11044 25 Jun 23:39 mro.pm
-r--r--r-- 1 root admin 997 25 Jun 23:39 ops.pm
-r--r--r-- 1 root admin 13945 25 Jun 23:39 re.pm
drwxr-xr-x 3 root admin 102 28 Jun 19:28 threads
-r--r--r-- 1 root admin 33283 25 Jun 23:39 threads.pm
So, it sort of seems to me that the permissions which perl5 got installed with for these modules has gotten mixed up somehow? I'm not really a perl user beyond enjoying it for massive directory-recursive find/replace operations within text files, so I haven't much of an idea what the permissions here are supposed to look like, and I'm not really sure how to go about determining how macports has gone and installed perl this way when it's otherwise worked without failure for years now. Does anyone have any recommendations for the sanest path towards rectifying this issue? Also, is there any interesting reason as to why the macports default for the perl5 port installs 5.12.4, and not 5.16.0, which has to be explicitly installed via the perl5.16 port?
Thanks again!