Dear Daisuke Maki,
I've had an entertaining morning building Perl 5.8.3 and getting
DateTime::Calendar::Japanese etc installed. Perl 5.8.3 itself was trivial
- I'm glad to say.
I ran into a bigger problem with DateTime::Calendar::Japanese etc -- they
need the GMP (GNU Multi-Precision Math) library installed. I didn't have
it, so I had to build it - twice, because the first time it opted to build
64-bit interfaces on a system (Solaris 8) where I still run mainly in
32-bit mode. With GMP built and installed, I could get Math::BigInt::GMP
installed, and hence everything else. That was done first with 5.8.2 and
then with 5.8.3.
I don't know if there's an effective way for ensuring that a non-Perl
prerequisite such as the GMP libraries are available. In DBD::Informix, my
Makefile.PL does a lot of poking around to ensure that the prerequisite
non-Perl ESQL/C product (library and headers) is both installed and usable
- basically because I had so many people running into problems when it was
not because they didn't know it was necessary.
Also, when a test takes a long time, as many of yours do, you very kindly
output a warning that the test will take a while, but it is really helpful
to know when the test started, so you can easily determine how long the
test has taken so far.
So, once I had GMP installed (outside the Perl installation, but where Perl
expects to find libraries), then the new modules installed OK.
--
Jonathan Leffler ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
STSM, Informix Database Engineering, IBM Data Management
4100 Bohannon Drive, Menlo Park, CA 94025
Tel: +1 650-926-6921 Tie-Line: 630-6921
"I don't suffer from insanity; I enjoy every minute of it!"
