Yes, that did it! Thanks a lot, I don't think I'd have spotted that.

Ben

On 5 Sep 2009, at 11:46, Christian Soeller wrote:

> For what it's worth, I came across a similar problem the other day.  
> Basically, the (probably flaky) way that PP.pm guesses at the  
> location of typemap files seems to fail on OS X.
>
> The line
>
>   my $_rootdir=$Config{installprivlib}."/ExtUtils/";
>
> is *not* finding typemap in any of the subdirs.
>
> I ended up hardcoding the location to the correct ExtUtils dir after  
> finding it eventually:
>
> # try hardcoding for the moment
> my $_rootdir="/System/Library/Perl/5.8.8/ExtUtils/";
>
> There should be a better (fully platform independent) way using one  
> of the Config vars or using the value of @INC or some such, maybe  
> somebody skilled in the art can enlighten us.
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> Christian
>
> On 5/09/2009, at 11:50 AM, Sisyphus wrote:
>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Benjamin Schuster-Boeckler" <[email protected]>
>> To: <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 10:17 PM
>> Subject: [Perldl] PDL compilation error on OS X 10.6
>>
>>
>>> The new Snow Leopard system comes with perl 8.10.0 (from 5.8.6
>>> previously), hence I wanted to recompile PDL. I'm getting the  
>>> following:
>>>
>>> ---------------------------------------------
>>> /usr/bin/perl -I/Users/schuster/Downloads/PDL-2.4.4_08/blib/lib -I/
>>> Users/schuster/Downloads/PDL-2.4.4_08/blib/arch "-MPDL::PP qw/ 
>>> PDL::Bad
>>> PDL::Bad Bad/" bad.pd
>>> The type =double= does not have a typemap entry!
>>> make[2]: *** [Bad.pm] Error 2
>>> make[1]: *** [subdirs] Error 2
>>> make: *** [subdirs] Error 2
>>> ---------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> A google suggests to check whether Inline::C works fine, and it  
>>> does.
>>> Does anyone have a clue what's going on here? PDL is the only module
>>> that I'm having problems with...
>>>
>>
>> It sems to be suggesting that there's no typemap entry for 'double'  
>> - which
>> is a bit hard to believe.
>> Take a look in your /ExtUtils/typemap (same folder as Makemaker.pm)  
>> and
>> check that there is an entry for "double" in that file. Mine has:
>>
>> .....
>> double   T_DOUBLE
>> .....
>> INPUT
>> .....
>> T_DOUBLE
>> $var = (double)SvNV($arg)
>> .....
>> OUTPUT
>> .....
>> T_DOUBLE
>> sv_setnv($arg, (double)$var);
>>
>> For an Inline::C check to see that there's no problems with passing  
>> and
>> returning doubles try:
>>
>> ###########################
>> use warnings;
>>
>> use Inline C => Config =>
>>   BUILD_NOISY => 1;
>>
>> use Inline C => <<'EOC';
>>
>> double foo(double x) {
>>      return (double)x  * 2;
>> }
>>
>> EOC
>>
>> print foo(17.3);
>> ###########################
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Rob
>>
>>
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> University of Auckland  Auckland, New Zealand  fax +64 9 3737499
>

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