On 7/2/2010 12:16 PM, P Kishor wrote:
 >
> I was recently successful in building PLplot on my computer, so
> emboldened by that experience, I decided to download the latest dev
> release of PDL and give it a whirl. I hope the following report will
> help Chris and others improve the installation process.

Hi Puneet-

This looks like anything but an install attempt for
PDL-2.4.6_011.tar.gz.  With as many external dependencies
as PDL has, one won't usually have much luck just trying
any old thing and hoping things work.  :-(

I *strongly* recommend trying only one thing at a time.

For example, as was recommended, if you want to try to
build the CPAN developers release, just do a plain, no
changes, build with the current external configuration
that, presumably, works already.  If it does not, I don't
recommend trying your own PDL build until you get a
vanilla version working.

That said, I notice from some of the errors reported
it appears that you are building PDL with another PDL
in your path.  That is bound to cause problems.  Some
of the old stuff is from your previous OS/hardware
which makes things worse as far as building PDL goes.

You might consider a completely clean setup if you
wish to be building PDL from scratch.  At the very
least, go through all the dependencies listed in the
DEPENDENCIES file in the PDL top level directory.
You should confirm that all of those are the correct
version and platform for your current setup.

That should help a lot with the mysterious and many
failures you have been seeing due to such version skew.

Good luck,
Chris

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