For whatever reason perl Makefile.PL fails on my distro
mentions something about a glob which fails at line 207 of the makefile.
I couldn't even get to make install, because make would fail
The weirdest part is that this is machine #2 of two machine which are setup
identicallly.
The difference is that the machine which failed is using an SMP kernel.
what gives??
I had to patch it like this:
see " ####### my really bad patch -- " below
sub post_initialize {
my($self) = shift;
if ($Config{privlibexp} ne $Config{sitelibexp}) {
warn "
Warning: By default new modules are installed into your 'site_lib'
directories. Since site_lib directories come after the normal library
directories you must delete old DBI files and directories from your
'privlib' and 'archlib' directories and their auto subdirectories.
If you don't have an old version of the DBI installed you can ignore this.
";
my $find = "find $Config{privlibexp} $Config{archlibexp} ";
$find .= "-name 'DB*' -print | sort | uniq";
if (open(FIND, "$find |")) {
my @old;
while(<FIND>) {
next unless m:\bDB(I|D$):;
next if m:^\Q$Config{sitelibexp}/:;
next if m:^\Q$Config{sitearchexp}/:;
next if m:^\Q$Config{man3direxp}/:;
chop;
push @old, $_;
}
close(FIND);
warn "Here's a list of probable old files and directories:\n ",
join("\n ",@old),"\n" if @old;
warn "Reinstall DBD::* drivers after deleting the listed DBD
directories.\n"
if "@old" =~ /\bDBD$/m;
warn "\n";
}
}
# install files that DBD's may need
my $file;
####### my really bad patch --
#foreach $file (qw(DBIXS.h dbi_sql.h dbd_xsh.h dbipport.h), <*.xst>) {
foreach $file (qw(DBIXS.h dbi_sql.h dbd_xsh.h dbipport.h), qw(Driver.xst) )
{
$self->{PM}->{$file} = '$(INST_ARCHAUTODIR)/'.$file;
}
return '';
}
I'm guessing that perl is looking for old DBI | DBD files, and if they
aren't found, we install the files in the top level of the install directory.
if ($Config{privlibexp} ne $Config{sitelibexp}) then can I assume
that it's OK to quote specifically Driver.xst, as it's the only file in the top
level?
Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 5 subversion 3) configuration:
Platform:
osname=linux, osvers=2.2.5-22smp, archname=i386-linux
uname='linux porky.devel.redhat.com 2.2.5-22smp #1 smp wed jun 2 09:11:51 ed
t 1999 i686 unknown '
hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
usethreads=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef
Compiler:
cc='cc', optimize='-O2', gccversion=egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2
release)
cppflags='-Dbool=char -DHAS_BOOL -I/usr/local/include'
ccflags ='-Dbool=char -DHAS_BOOL -I/usr/local/include'
stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=undef, usevfork=false
intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8
d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
Linker and Libraries:
ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
libs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lc -lposix -lcrypt
libc=, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
Dynamic Linking:
dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynamic'
cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'
Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
Built under linux
Compiled at Aug 30 1999 23:09:51
@INC:
/usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/i386-linux
/usr/lib/perl5/5.00503
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005
