Bug 1816 - INSTALL has a bad suggestion wrt Sys::Syslog
Summary: INSTALL has a bad suggestion wrt Sys::Syslog
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Spamassassin
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Building & Packaging (show other bugs)
Version: SVN Trunk (Latest Devel Version)
Hardware: All All
: P5 normal
Target Milestone: 2.60
Assignee: SpamAssassin Developer Mailing List
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Reported: 2003-04-22 19:58 UTC by Iain Truskett
Modified: 2003-05-25 15:15 UTC (History)
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Description Iain Truskett 2003-04-22 19:58:45 UTC 
The INSTALL File (in particular, revision 1.27 of it) suggests
to obtain Sys::Syslog from CPAN. This module is only available
on CPAN as part of the perl distributions.

Perl 5.003_07 has the module, albeit with no version.
Perl 5.6 has Sys::Syslog 0.01
Perl 5.8 has Sys::Syslog 0.03

I've just been helping someone who was wondering why he needed 5.8
to install SA. As it turned out, he was merely following the
instructions to get Sys::Syslog from CPAN.

I suggest simply backing out revision 1.27 of INSTALL.
It's completely superfluous.


cheers,
-- 
Iain.
Comment 1 Theo Van Dinter 2003-05-25 23:15:44 UTC 
added a note to that part of the INSTALL document explaining that the module 
was probably already installed as part of perl, and listed a check to make 
sure it's installed.