Hi Barry. On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Barry Hall <[email protected]> wrote:
> Trying to install PDL using CPAN -- newbie not sure where to start here. > I've just accepted whatever else CPAN wanted to install. > Need someone to point me in the right direction. > Used to using PPM on windows based machine. > Never had this number of errors trying install any package. > Don't know where to start. > I guess you're familiar with PDL, just not with CPAN. Welcome to the wonderful world of installing PDL! :-D > cpan> install PDL > > > I get a lot of these: > > -- NOT OK > Running make test > Can't test without successful make > Running make install > make had returned bad status, install seems impossible > > > probable cause? > We can't give too much help without the actual test failures, but these are the possibilities I can think of: 1. OpenGL dependency is not available, so OpenGL tests fail. I thought that Macs had OpenGL installed by default, so I doubt this is the problem. 2. You actually have a failing test. You'd have to show us the list of tests for us to help out here. Either way, I can tell you that most of PDL will work, so if you want to go ahead and force the install, you'd probably be safe. > Also had a couple of these: > > > Can't locate ExtUtils/F77.pm in @INC (@INC contains: > /Library/Perl/Updates/5.8.8 > /System/Library/Perl/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level > /System/Library/Perl/5.8.8 > /Library/Perl/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level /Library/Perl/5.8.8 > /Library/Perl > /Network/Library/Perl/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level > /Network/Library/Perl/5.8.8 /Network/Library/Perl > /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level > /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.8.8 /Library/Perl/5.8.6 /Library/Perl/5.8.1 > /Users/barryhall/.cpan/build/PDL-2.4.6 > /Users/barryhall/.cpan/build/PDL-2.4.6/Lib .) at (eval 269) line 2. > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 269) line 2. > > ExtUtils::F77 module not found. Ought not build PDL::Slatec > This is OK. This is the message you get when the system probes for a Fortran compiler. Since you only need a fortran compiler for some of the optional modules, and none of the core modules, this is OK. So, if you trust the PDL mostly works, you can go ahead and try to force the installation. If you really want to work out those bugs, try running the tests again and posting the output. To force the install, try cpan> force install PDL To rerun the tests, try cpan> test PDL Hope that helps! David -- Sent via my carrier pigeon.
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