2009/1/29 Michael Hind <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > I have just done a new installation of Kubuntu Intrepid i386 on my system as > my previous one was a little broken. > > I set up most of the stuff I thought I needed and used cpanp to update and > get the required perl 5.10 modules. > > I got parrot from the subversion repository and ran > > perl Configure.pl --test --optimize > > which seemed fine, I then ran > > make world > make smoke. > > the result of this was: > > http://smolder.plusthree.com/app/public_projects/report_details/17245 > > I noticed the following though in the output: > > t/pmc/bigint................................skipped: No BigInt Lib > configured > > and > > t/dynpmc/gdbmhash...........................skipped: No gdbm library > available > > I realised that I had installed the libraries but not the necessary .dev > files for these > > I installed the .dev files and did a make realclean and reran > > > http://smolder.plusthree.com/app/public_projects/report_details/17250 > > this gives 11767 tests with 606 skipped and 239 TODO as opposed to 11680 > tests with 609 skipped and 239 TODO > so effectively 3 skipped tests being run giving an additional 87 tests. > > My main point is that I could find nothing in the documentation showing > which libraries and perl modules are requirements and nice to haves etc. >
Something like : $ sudo aptitude install subversion $ sudo aptitude install libc6-dev $ sudo aptitude install bison flex # optional $ sudo aptitude install perl-doc # optional $ sudo aptitude install splint # optional $ sudo aptitude install exuberant-ctags # optional $ sudo aptitude install libicu-dev # optional $ sudo aptitude install libgmp3-dev # optional $ sudo aptitude install libreadline5-dev # optional $ sudo aptitude install libgdbm-dev # optional $ sudo aptitude install libpq-dev # optional $ sudo aptitude install libpcre3-dev # optional $ sudo aptitude install libglut3-dev # optional $ sudo cpan Test::Base Test::Pod Test::Pod::Coverage Pod::Spell $ sudo cpan File::HomeDir File::Which Readonly Regexp::Parser $ sudo cpan Perl::Critic Perl::Critic::Bangs Test::Perl::Critic François. > I am still not sure if there are libraries and/or programs that I don't have > that would be useful for me as I continue to get involved with parrot > development. > > For example it took a little google/cpan searching to find Pod::PseudoPod > for the docs/book stuff. > > Thank you, > > Michael (mikehh) > > ps. I noticed that a lot of the tests submitted to smolder do not seem to > have these libraries (.dev) files > > -- > Michael H. Hind > > Tel: +44 (0) 1224 596 139 > Cell: +44 (0) 7877 224 745 > > _______________________________________________ > http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev > > _______________________________________________ http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev
