Hey folks -
The wiki has a few rather dated looking pages about installing PDL on
various OSes, but nothing about installing PDL for a system without a PDL
package. I've decided there needs to be a page on the wiki for this and I
am soliciting your help in getting the most accurate info into the wiki.
Here's what I've got (the actual wiki page can be found at
https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/pdl/index.php?title=Installing_PDL_the_slow_and_tedious_way
):
1. Make sure you have a full build system, including a fortran compiler.
2. Install PDL's dependencies using the CPAN shell:
1. Astro::FITS::Header
2. File::Spec
3. Filter::Util::Call
4. Text::Balanced
5. Inline
3. Go to http://search.cpan.org/~chm/
<http://search.cpan.org/%7Echm/>(Chris Marshall's CPAN Author page)
4. Download the latest PDL distribution tarball
5. untar
6. cd PDL-version_string
7. edit perldl.conf to remove dependencies you don't need or which are
giving trouble
8. perl Makefile.PL
9. make
10. make test
11. make doctest
12. perl -Mblib perldl (to test the perldl shell)
13. make install
Obviously a good many dependencies are missing. For example, one of the
Ubuntu install pages mentions ExtUtils::F77, libX11-dev, and netpbm. Is
there a dependency list somewhere that I can use? Does anybody have any
finer points to suggest about building from source?
Thanks.
David
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