On July 12, 2020 at 1:32 PM, Ken Moffat <[email protected]> wrote:
On Sun, Jul 12, 2020 at 05:36:09PM -0000, Hans Malissa wrote:
I'm working my way through LFS 9.1-systemd, and I'm stuck in chapter 5.33
Texinfo
(http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable-systemd/chapter05/texinfo.html):
$ ./configure --prefix=/tools
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /tools/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /tools/bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
checking whether UID '1000' is supported by ustar format... yes
checking whether GID '1000' is supported by ustar format... yes
checking how to create a ustar tar archive... gnutar
checking for perl... /tools/bin/perl
checking Perl version and modules... no
configure: error: perl >= 5.7.3 with Encode and Data::Dumper required by
Texinfo.
Something seems to be wrong with my Perl installation. I've been following the
instructions in 5.29
(http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable-systemd/chapter05/perl.html)
exactly, with the only exception that I used Perl-5.30.3 as described in the
Errata page (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/errata/stable-systemd/).
Not sure what is wrong here. I've built LFS many times before, but I've never
seen this particular error.
Thanks a lot,
Hans
Hi Hans,
some general suggestions to help you debug the problem:
$/tools/bin/perl --version
That checks if perl is installed and runnable. If it is not, maybe
$ldd /tools/bin/perl
If perl is working, in /tools/lib/perl5/5.30.3/ you should see
Encode.pm and and Encode/directory with various modules, and
similarly /tools/lib/perl5/5.30.3/Data/Dumper.pm
If those are present you will need to look at config.log and see
what it tested for (a few lines above 'checking Perl version and
modules'.
That explains everything. It turns out that the modules were installed in
/tools/lib/perl5/5.30.1 and not in /tools/lib/perl5/5.30.3. Looks like I
followed the instructions in 5.33 a little too literally.
I renamed /tools/lib/perl5/5.30.1 to /tools/lib/perl5/5.30.3 and now texinfo
builds fine.
Thanks a lot!
Hans
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