After perl upgrade: "Can't locate XML/Parser.pm in @INC"

[Frank Shute]

On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 04:27:44PM +0100, Niklaas Baudet von Gersdorff via freebsd-questions wrote:
>
> I upgraded perl and afterwards I got 
> 
>   Can't locate XML/Parser.pm in @INC
> 
> when executing some munin plugin:
> 
>   Can't locate XML/Parser.pm in @INC (you may need to install the
>   XML::Parser module) (@INC contains:
>   /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/mach/5.20
>   /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.20/mach
>   /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.20 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.20
>   /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.20/mach .) at
>   /usr/local/etc/munin/plugins/varnish4_bad line 99.
> 
> But it's there:
> 
>   $ pkg info | grep ^p5- | grep -i parser
> 
>   p5-HTML-Parser-3.72            Perl5 module for parsing HTML documents
>   p5-TimeDate-2.30_2,1           Perl5 module containing a better/faster date parser for absolute dates
>   p5-XML-Parser-2.44             Perl extension interface to James Clark's XML parser, expat
> 
>   $ find /usr/local/lib/perl5/ -iname parser
> 
>   /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.20/TAP/Parser
>   /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/mach/5.20/auto/HTML/Parser
>   /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/mach/5.24/auto/XML/Parser
>   /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/mach/5.24/XML/Parser
>   /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.24/TAP/Parser
> 
>   $ pkg info | grep ^perl
> 
>   perl5-5.20.3_15                Practical Extraction and Report Language
>   perl5.24-5.24.1.r4             Practical Extraction and Report Language
> 
> Did I miss something when upgrading perl?
> 
>     Niklaas


Hi Niklaas,

I'm guessing you probably didn't see the instructions in /usr/ports/UPDATING
about upgrading perl to 5.24 so you've ended up with 2 versions of Parser and
2 versions of perl.

I think if you follow the instructions in UPDATING you should be good to go.


Regards,

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Frank

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