Dunno about SuSE or RH RPMS, but Mandrake's situation seems MUCH better, or at least they have lucked out... If CPAN doesn't work from your RPM installed perl, then the RPMs are kaka, pure and simple! Perl has to be pretty darn broken before CPAN stops working.
There are a few things to watch out for. 1 is that most distros now include libxml2 2.6.x which is broken with AxKit AFAIK. I had to downgrade to 2.5.11 RPMs and then things got much better on MDK 9.2. Remember to make sure that you have the corresponding devel RPMs!!! Its pretty easy to end up with library version X and headers version Y! On Thursday 22 January 2004 11:31 pm, Kermit Tensmeyer wrote: > (hmm) I'm reinstalling with suse 9.0 at this point, but for the last 5 SuSE > releases, I've found better results, by -not- using the RPM's (well I allow > the RPM's to be installed to mungle the dependcies list for RPM), but I > install/recompile Perl, Apache, mod-perl and AxKit. > As soon as there is a problem, the first recomendation that you will get > (most cases...) is to rebuild the packages with the latest revision. > And I have /never/ had success updating an RPM built perl with CPAN > modules. Your mileage will vary... > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 8:47 AM > Subject: Axkit Installation on default SUSE 9.0 installation > > > Hi, > > Is there anyone who's managed to achieve the above and could give me a few > pointers? > > I've been reading webpages and the mail archives for the past three days > and just don't seem to be making any progress. If I could get this > working, I think I'd be happy to reinstall it and write up the solution for > a WiKi page like the two Red Hat installation descriptions currently > available. > > From installation, I've installed the apache packages (not Apache2 - tho I > made that mistake originally) along with the mod_perl module. I confirmed > this was up and working by running a few perl scripts and checking the logs > to make sure mod_perl was compiled. I also installed the latest SUSE xml > library RPM's for: > > libxml2 > libxml2-devel > libxml2-python > libxslt > libxslt-devel > libxslt-python > > I believe these are installed correctly as I'm able to run xmlconfig from > the command line. > > The default locale in /etc/sysconfig/language is temporarily set to en_US > to avoid some of the posts I read regarding perl / UTF-8 issues. > > Naively, I hoped I could now install the required modules from the CPAN > command line, finishing up with Axkit, as detailed in: > > http://axkit.org/wiki/view/AxKit/AxKitRedHat9AnotherWay# > > However, as soon as I reach install XML::LibXML::Common it fails out due to > > what appears to be (according to the mailing list archive) the now familiar: > > running xml2-config... ok > > looking for -lxml2... no > > looking for -llibxml2... no > > libxml2 not found > > Try setting LIBS and INC values on the command line > > Or get libxml2 from > > http://www.libxml.org/ > > If you install via RPMs, make sure you also install the -devel > > RPMs, as this is where the headers (.h files) are. > > So, what do I do here? I have definitely installed the appropriate SUSE > RPMs. I've tried setting the LIBS, INC and PERL5LIB bash variables to the > right location (I think it's /usr/include/libxml2) but that doesn't seem to > have any affect on the CPAN shell. > > I've downloaded the source from xmlsoft.org but I don't know if I should > install it. If I try to remove all of the libraries mentioned above I get > a list of programs which depend on it, including gcc which I will need to > compile the source code I want to replace it with! I also have no idea how > to install the src version alongside the rpm (if that were possible). > > So ... can anyone point me in the right direction or show me a mail I may > have missed which explains where I'm going wrong? > > Peter. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Tod Harter Giant Electronic Brain http://www.giantelectronicbrain.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
