Item1593: Installing plugins from vanilla Foswiki 1.0.5 does not work

Priority:	CurrentState:	AppliesTo:	Component:	WaitingFor:
Normal	Closed	Engine

Installing from configure, or XXX_installers from the command line does not work.

Error message:

here was a compile error: Can't locate object method "use" via package "Foswiki::Merge" (perhaps you forgot to load "Foswiki::Merge"?) at /my path/tools/extender.pl line 81

After a session with Olivier on IRC he found out this is the issue:

• UNIVERSAL::require is too old (0.03 instead of 0.13)

Fix:

• Use distributed CPAN instead of the ones installed on the system
• To do this, add to LocalLib.cfg:
  • $CPANBASE = "$foswikiLibPath/CPAN/lib";

Note from Olivier: This disappears in 1.0.6, as I removed that UNIVERSAL::require hack because nobody liked it

-- ArthurClemens - 08 May 2009