I think that Barry meant to send this to everybody. I can't blame him. It took me a few weeks before I trained myself to hit the 'Reply to All' button. :-)
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Barry Hall <[email protected]> Date: Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 2:17 PM Subject: Re: [Perldl] Install PDL to Mac OS 10.5.8 ??? -- newbie to CPAN -- don't know where to start -- anything obvious?? To: David Mertens <[email protected]> thanks to everyone -- I have about 99% functionality leave the rest to chase down another day -- I only wanted good linear algebra routines. If they work with complex numbers I am going to be fine for now At some point I do want to iron out the other problems -- saving your e-mails. You guys are really helpful -- thanks so much!! On Jul 3, 2010, at 12:54 PM, David Mertens wrote: Regarding a fresh CPAN install - I've never had it work. What's more, it's not a PDL problem - it's a problem with the Inline dependency. Something happens when Parse::RecDescent gets installed. The weird things is that if you explicitly install Parse::RecDescent first, I think everything works fine, but if you let CPAN install it as one of Inline's dependencies (actually Inline::C), something gets hung up. The upshot is that if you are installing from CPAN, you have to install P::RecDescent first, then possibly also Inline. Then you should be able to install PDL. (You also need to be sure you have your GL dependencies in order.) Perhaps most frustratingly, if you try to install P::RecDescent after a failed PDL install (because of the circular dependency stupidities), then it will complain that it's already unwrapped but something went wrong. In that case you have to install it by hand. It's a problem easily solved by some persistence and stubbornness, but at some point we should probably bug the authors of our dependencies too get this ironed out. David On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Chris Marshall <[email protected]> wrote: > Some approaches for getting PDL on a Mac OS X are: > > (1) use the SciKarl PDL distribution from > http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdl/files/ > > (2) use the CPAN shell to install PDL which > should be as simple as starting the cpan > shell and typing 'install PDL'. > > (3) a manual download, build, test, and install > > If approach #1 is not sufficient for your > needs and #2 fails for some reason, then a > manual install of PDL and its dependencies > is the best way to find, report, and solve > problems. I'll defer to Mac OS X users > for details here. Eventually, with enough > feedback and problem reports, it should > become just 'install PDL' under the cpan > shell or something even simpler. > > Good luck, > Chris > > On 7/3/2010 10:01 AM, Barry Hall wrote: > > Trying to install PDL using CPAN -- newbie not sure where to start here. > > I've just accepted whatever else CPAN wanted to install. > > Need someone to point me in the right direction. > > Used to using PPM on windows based machine. > > Never had this number of errors trying install any package. > > Don't know where to start. > > > > > > > > cpan> install PDL > > > > > > I get a lot of these: > > > > -- NOT OK > > Running make test > > Can't test without successful make > > Running make install > > make had returned bad status, install seems impossible > > > > > > probable cause? > > > > Also had a couple of these: > > > > > > Can't locate ExtUtils/F77.pm in @INC (@INC contains: > /Library/Perl/Updates/5.8.8 > > /System/Library/Perl/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level > /System/Library/Perl/5.8.8 > > /Library/Perl/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level /Library/Perl/5.8.8 > /Library/Perl > > /Network/Library/Perl/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level > > /Network/Library/Perl/5.8.8 /Network/Library/Perl > > /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level > > /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.8.8 /Library/Perl/5.8.6 /Library/Perl/5.8.1 > > /Users/barryhall/.cpan/build/PDL-2.4.6 > > /Users/barryhall/.cpan/build/PDL-2.4.6/Lib .) at (eval 269) line 2. > > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 269) line 2. > > > > ExtUtils::F77 module not found. Ought not build PDL::Slatec > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Perldl mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl > > > > > > > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > > Version: 9.0.830 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2978 - Release Date: 07/02/10 > 14:35:00 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Perldl mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl > -- Sent via my carrier pigeon.
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