On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Chris Marshall <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 8/29/2010 11:32 AM, P Kishor wrote:
>> https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/pdl/index.php?title=Installing_PDL_on_Mac_OS_X#PDL::IO::Pic
>
> You might want to look at whether the tests
> for the PDL::IO::Pic stuff passed or were
> skipped.  If you had a broken or missing
> NetPBM install, then that should have been
> flagged in some fashion.


Can I go back and look at that? In other words, are the results of the
tests stored in some file?

I am looking through perldl.conf, and unlike other modules with
dependencies, there is no setting for building or not building
PDL::IO::Pic.

And, while I can't say for sure, I certainly don't recall any errors
saying PDL::IO::Pic won't be built because I didn't have NetPBM.

What I recall is that PDL::IO::Pic built just fine, without any
intervention from me. But, when I tried to run any command inside
PDL::IO::Pic, I got the error saying that <ppmtogif> wasn't available
(I forget the exact name of the missing program, but the error
basically said that the NetPBM programs weren't available).

So, then I tried installing NetPBM stable version, and failed because
of the error with libpng14. Then I downloaded the latest build (so
called "advanced" build of NetPBM), and after installing that,
everything worked.


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