Hi guys,
I'm still a relative newbie, but I'm having a problem
installing DateTime... I tried to install via cpan but got an
error so popped out to the directory to try manually... Here's
what I get:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] DateTime-0.21]# perl Makefile.PL
Testing if you have a C compiler
Makefile:96: *** missing separator. Stop.
I cannot determine if you have a C compiler
so I will install a perl-only implementation
You can force installation of the XS version with
perl Makefile.PL --xs
Warning: I could not locate your pod2man program. Please make
sure,
your pod2man program is in your PATH before you execute
'make'
Writing Makefile for DateTime
[EMAIL PROTECTED] DateTime-0.21]#
I do fershure have a c compiler... So I tried:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] DateTime-0.21]# perl Makefile.PL --xs
Writing Makefile for DateTime
[EMAIL PROTECTED] DateTime-0.21]#
so far so good...
then:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] DateTime-0.21]# make
Makefile:96: *** missing separator. Stop.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] DateTime-0.21]#
hmm... So not to be deterred, I looked at line 96 of the
makefile and here's the weird stuff I find:
94:installhtml1dir=''
95:installhtml3dir=''
96:installman1
97:INSTALLSITEBIN = /usr
98:INSTALLVENDORBIN = /usr/bin'
(line numbers mine)... So notice the hanging apostrophe on line
98... there are many lines with unmatched apostrophes... So I
did what anyone who doesn't have a clue would do and edited the
Makefile and took out all of the 'extra' apostrophes...
On line 248 and 249 is:
SHELL = /bin/sh'
shar='
108 and 109:
LIBPERL_A = libperl.a'
libc='
and 101:
installvendorlib='/u
etc...
So after some guess editing, I was able to run make. But none of
the tests pass and I get:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] GCX]$ perl testdate.pl
Can't locate loadable object for module DateTime in @INC (@INC
contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-
thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-
linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-
thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0 .) at
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/XSLoader.pm line 44
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/DateTime.pm line 44.
Compilation failed in require at testdate.pl line 1.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at testdate.pl line 1.
Which makes sense since I guess the c stuff isn't getting
compiled... anyhow, all of this to me seems to be a problem with
the Makefile? But I'm afraid I don't know where to go from here.
This is on Redhat Linux 9, perl 5.8.0 on i386.
Thanks a lot!
ken.
Happy to post any files that might be helpful...
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Ken Burcham
Ken Burcham Consulting, Inc.
http://www.capemaystation.com
