Re: [Fink-beginners] Perl archived...why?

[James Coyle]

I tried rebuilding rmagic....and got error messages. I then removed rmagic and tried to both rebuild it and reinstall it, but apparently the package points to an older version of perl (5.8.1)  than the version that  comes with OS10.4 (5.8.6) This is the error I get when I try to reinstall rmagic now: Failed: Internal error: node for perl581-core already exists Is there any way around this, or do I need to wait for 10.4 packages? Thanks. On May 18, 2005, at 9:03 AM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: On May 17, 2005, at 11:30 PM, James Coyle wrote: Yes, the rebuild might be the fix. I tried to install perl584-core and ended up with this problem at first: lib/locale...........................FAILED at test 99 lib/Math/BigInt/t/bare_mbf...........ok lib/Math/BigInt/t/bare_mbi...........ok lib/Math/BigInt/t/bare_mif...........ok And then ultimately got this: Failed 1 test script out of 835, 99.88% okay. ### Since not all tests were successful, you may want to run some of ### them individually and examine any diagnostic messages they produce. ### See the INSTALL document's section on "make test". ### You have a good chance to get more information by running ###  ./perl harness ### in the 't' directory since most (>=80%) of the tests succeeded. ### You may have to set your dynamic library search path, ### DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH, to point to the build directory: ###  setenv DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH `pwd`; cd t; ./perl harness ###  DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=`pwd`; export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH; cd t; ./perl harness ###  export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=`pwd`; cd t; ./perl harness ### for csh-style shells, like tcsh; or for traditional/modern ### Bourne-style shells, like bash, ksh, and zsh, respectively. u=11.65 s=8.32 cu=497.3 cs=159.56 scripts=835 tests=81233 make[2]: *** [_test_notty] Error 1 make[1]: *** [_test] Error 2 make: *** [test] Error 2 ### execution of make failed, exit code 2 Removing build lock... dpkg -r fink-buildlock-perl584-5.8.4-7 (Reading database ... 7024 files and directories currently installed.) Removing fink-buildlock-perl584-5.8.4-7 ... Failed: phase compiling: perl584-5.8.4-7 failed Do you think now that I should rebuild Report Magic, and if I I rebuild it,   will I completely lose my config files for it? They were a little tough to set up in the first place Thanks, JC I'd say it looks like you need the rebuild--back up your config files somewhere safe and then see if you can reuse them. --  Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University visiting MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Levitated Dipole Experiment 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA  02139-4213