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Étant donné que les email peuvent facilement être sujets à la manipulation, nous ne pouvons accepter aucune responsabilité pour le contenu fourni. > Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 13:44:29 -0600 > From: ha...@persoftware.com > To: dbi-users@perl.org > Subject: Error running "make" on AIX 5.3 > > I have been unable to install DBI on our AIX 5.3 using either CPAN ("out > of memory") or the "perl Makefile.PL" method. I've read the entire > thread started by Don Walters on this subject begun on 3 Aug 2012, and > it looks like his problem boiled down to his cc_r being linked to gcc. > Mine is linked to xlc, as it should be. My perl is 5.8.8. The results > from my Makefile.PL run are in the attached file "makefile.tst". They > look normal to me. The installation fails during "make", which dies > with the error "lib/DBD/Gofer.pm:841: Unknown command paragraph > "=encoding ISO8859-1"" Here is the output from "make". > > /usr/bin/perl /usr/opt/perl5/lib/5.8.8/ExtUtils/xsubpp -typemap > /usr/opt/perl5/lib/5.8.8/ExtUtils/typemap -typemap typemap DBI.xs > > DBI.xsc && mv DBI.xsc DBI.c > cc_r -c -D_ALL_SOURCE -D_ANSI_C_SOURCE -D_POSIX_SOURCE > -qmaxmem=-1 -qnoansialias -DUSE_NATIVE_DLOPEN -DNEED_PTHREAD_INIT -q32 > -D_LARGE_FILES -qlonglong -O -DVERSION=\"1.622\" > -DXS_VERSION=\"1.622\" > "-I/usr/opt/perl5/lib/5.8.8/aix-thread-multi/CORE" DBI.c > Running Mkbootstrap for DBI () > chmod 644 DBI.bs > rm -f blib/arch/auto/DBI/DBI.so > ld -bhalt:4 -bexpall -G -bnoentry -lpthreads -lc DBI.o -o > blib/arch/auto/DBI/DBI.so > chmod 755 blib/arch/auto/DBI/DBI.so > cp DBI.bs blib/arch/auto/DBI/DBI.bs > chmod 644 blib/arch/auto/DBI/DBI.bs > /usr/bin/perl "-Iblib/arch" "-Iblib/lib" dbiprof.PL dbiprof > Extracted dbiprof from dbiprof.PL with variable substitutions. > /usr/bin/perl "-Iblib/arch" "-Iblib/lib" dbiproxy.PL dbiproxy > Extracted dbiproxy from dbiproxy.PL with variable substitutions. > /usr/bin/perl "-Iblib/arch" "-Iblib/lib" dbilogstrip.PL dbilogstrip > Extracted dbilogstrip from dbilogstrip.PL with variable substitutions. > cp dbiprof blib/script/dbiprof > /usr/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::MY" -e "MY->fixin(shift)" > blib/script/dbiprof > cp dbiproxy blib/script/dbiproxy > /usr/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::MY" -e "MY->fixin(shift)" > blib/script/dbiproxy > cp dbilogstrip blib/script/dbilogstrip > /usr/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::MY" -e "MY->fixin(shift)" > blib/script/dbilogstrip > Manifying blib/man1/dbiprof.1 > Manifying blib/man1/dbiproxy.1 > Manifying blib/man1/dbilogstrip.1 > Manifying blib/man3/DBI::Gofer::Response.3 > Manifying blib/man3/DBD::Proxy.3 > Manifying blib/man3/DBI::Gofer::Transport::Base.3 > Manifying blib/man3/DBD::DBM.3 > Manifying blib/man3/DBI::Gofer::Serializer::DataDumper.3 > Manifying blib/man3/DBI::Const::GetInfoType.3 > Manifying blib/man3/DBI::DBD::Metadata.3 > Manifying blib/man3/DBI::Const::GetInfo::ODBC.3 > Manifying blib/man3/DBD::Gofer::Transport::pipeone.3 > Manifying blib/man3/DBI::ProfileDumper::Apache.3 > Manifying blib/man3/DBD::File.3 > Manifying blib/man3/DBD::File::Roadmap.3 > Manifying blib/man3/DBI::Util::CacheMemory.3 > Manifying blib/man3/DBI::ProfileSubs.3 > Manifying blib/man3/DBD::Gofer.3 > Manifying blib/man3/DBD::File::HowTo.3 > Manifying blib/man3/DBI::DBD::SqlEngine::HowTo.3 > Manifying blib/man3/DBD::Gofer::Transport::Base.3 > Manifying blib/man3/DBD::Gofer::Transport::corostream.3 > Manifying blib/man3/DBI::FAQ.3 > Manifying blib/man3/DBD::Gofer::Policy::rush.3 > Manifying blib/man3/DBI::SQL::Nano.3 > Manifying blib/man3/DBI::Gofer::Request.3 > Manifying blib/man3/DBI::Const::GetInfo::ANSI.3 > Manifying blib/man3/DBD::Gofer::Transport::stream.3 > Manifying blib/man3/DBD::Gofer::Policy::classic.3 > Manifying blib/man3/DBI::Gofer::Transport::stream.3 > Manifying blib/man3/DBI::Gofer::Serializer::Storable.3 > Manifying blib/man3/DBI.3 > Manifying blib/man3/DBD::Gofer::Policy::Base.3 > Manifying blib/man3/DBI::Const::GetInfoReturn.3 > Manifying blib/man3/DBD::Sponge.3 > Manifying blib/man3/DBD::Gofer::Policy::pedantic.3 > Manifying blib/man3/DBI::Gofer::Transport::pipeone.3 > Manifying blib/man3/DBI::DBD::SqlEngine::Developers.3 > Manifying blib/man3/DBI::W32ODBC.3 > Manifying blib/man3/DBD::Gofer::Transport::null.3 > Manifying blib/man3/Bundle::DBI.3 > Manifying blib/man3/DBD::File::Developers.3 > Manifying blib/man3/DBI::Profile.3 > Manifying blib/man3/DBI::ProfileDumper.3 > Manifying blib/man3/DBI::Gofer::Serializer::Base.3 > Manifying blib/man3/DBI::ProxyServer.3 > Manifying blib/man3/DBI::Gofer::Execute.3 > Manifying blib/man3/DBI::DBD.3 > Manifying blib/man3/Win32::DBIODBC.3 > Manifying blib/man3/DBI::DBD::SqlEngine.3 > Manifying blib/man3/DBI::PurePerl.3 > Manifying blib/man3/DBI::ProfileData.3 > > Any help that you could give me with getting this installed would be > appreciated. We plan to be using MySQL. > > Harry Jamieson > PER Software >