On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Chris Marshall <[email protected]> wrote: > On 7/2/2010 12:16 PM, P Kishor wrote: >> >> >> I was recently successful in building PLplot on my computer, so >> emboldened by that experience, I decided to download the latest dev >> release of PDL and give it a whirl. I hope the following report will >> help Chris and others improve the installation process. > > Hi Puneet- > > This looks like anything but an install attempt for > PDL-2.4.6_011.tar.gz. With as many external dependencies > as PDL has, one won't usually have much luck just trying > any old thing and hoping things work. :-(
Ok. For one, I have been successfully able to install PDL-2.4.6_011. It works, and works well. > > I *strongly* recommend trying only one thing at a time. > > For example, as was recommended, if you want to try to > build the CPAN developers release, just do a plain, no > changes, build with the current external configuration > that, presumably, works already. If it does not, I don't > recommend trying your own PDL build until you get a > vanilla version working. I am quite certain now that I can get PDL to build on my computer with the perldl.conf that I have. All I have to do is to stay away from TriD, PGPLOT, GSL, FFTW and slatec. Everything else works. I don't really need the other libraries, but was trying them out on a lark. > > That said, I notice from some of the errors reported > it appears that you are building PDL with another PDL > in your path. That is bound to cause problems. Some > of the old stuff is from your previous OS/hardware > which makes things worse as far as building PDL goes. I understand only part of the above. I do understand that the mix of X11R6 from Apple, Leopard (i386) and Snow Leopard (x86_64) libraries has been a source of some grief. However, having PDL 2.4.6 already on my system has not been an issue. > > You might consider a completely clean setup if you > wish to be building PDL from scratch. I wouldn't even begin to know how to "clean" my machine of all old traces of PDL before attempting on a new build, besides the fact that it would be very impractical even if I knew how. > At the very > least, go through all the dependencies listed in the > DEPENDENCIES file in the PDL top level directory. > You should confirm that all of those are the correct > version and platform for your current setup. Yes, that is good advice. Now I know how to solve most of them with your and everyone else's help. As I said, I can now install PDL on Mac OS X 10.6.4 except for the few dependencies listed above. I will document all of these soon and add them to the wiki. Many thanks, > > That should help a lot with the mysterious and many > failures you have been seeing due to such version skew. > > Good luck, > Chris > -- Puneet Kishor http://www.punkish.org Carbon Model http://carbonmodel.org Charter Member, Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org Science Commons Fellow, http://sciencecommons.org/about/whoweare/kishor Nelson Institute, UW-Madison http://www.nelson.wisc.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Assertions are politics; backing up assertions with evidence is science ======================================================================= _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
