[Bioperl-l] IO::String missing

[nkuipers]

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
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Bioinformatics Technician
Center for Biomedical Research,
Dept. of Biology, University of Victoria
Victoria BC, Canada