Re: Offtopic: I hate perl installs!

[Chas Owens <alas widomaker com>]

Quoting muppet <scott asofyet org>:
<snip>
> i'm sorry the error message isn't more
> explicit, but i don't know how to trap a failed 'use'.
</snip>

I use this to add optional modules to my code.

my $module_loaded = eval "use Module; 1" ? 1 : 0;

It could just as easily be adapted to

eval "use Glib ; 1" or die "The Glib-Perl package must be installed first\n";