[Bioperl-l] IO::String missing

Prachi Shah prachi_shroff at yahoo.com
Thu Feb 6 06:41:11 EST 2003


Hi,

That happens with Windows and Unix installations too.
Bundle::BioPerl also does not install IO::String. You
will have to install it separately.

Prachi.
 
--- nkuipers <nkuipers at uvic.ca> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I just downloaded the 1.2 distro.  I am not root,
> therefore I used perl 
> MakeFile.PL LIB=/home/nkuipers/lib.  A number of
> warnings were thrown during 
> make test, most having to do with the absence of
> IO::String (a few others 
> regarding certain XML parsers and SOAP are of no
> concern to me).
> 
> A test script that contains only:
> 
> use lib "/home/nkuipers/lib";
> use Bio::Index::Blast;
> 
> throws the warning:
> 
> "Can't locate IO/String.pm in @INC (@INC
> contains...) at 
> /home/nkuipers/lib/Bio/Index/Blast.pm line 87.
> 
> Line 87 is "use IO::String;".
> 
> In browsing the CPAN bioperl1.2 namespace and
> www.bioperl.org I could not find 
> an IO::String module to install manually before
> installing bioperl1.2.  Could 
> someone please tell me where I am being stupid? 
> Thanks.
> 
> I am on Red Hat 8.0 using Perl 5.8.0.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Nathanael Kuipers
> ---
> Bioinformatics Technician
> Center for Biomedical Research,
> Dept. of Biology, University of Victoria
> Victoria BC, Canada
> 
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