Hello Chris and PDLers Just as you are talking about a new release and we would need to update/install it, I would like to talk about a recent issue I had installing PDL.
I had 'issues' with some perl dependencies with installing cpanm PGPLOT and cpanm Module::Compile but I will I report it in a blog entry soon so I could help to improve the documentation. Here I would like to ask a very specific question: If you have already a PDL installed and you install a new version a warning appears: -------------------------------------------------- Unpacking PDL-2.007.tar.gz Entering PDL-2.007 Checking configure dependencies from META.yml Checking if you have Devel::CheckLib 1.01 ... Yes (1.02) Configuring PDL-2.007 Running Makefile.PL +------- WARNING ------------------------------------------------ | PDL version 2.4.11 was detected in your @INC | PDL may not build/test correctly with another PDL in @INC! +---------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------ This mean that I need manually to remove my previous PDL installtion first? How do I remove my old vesion of @INC?, you mean I need to rm -rf it?. Could this message be improved and hints how to avoid/fix it be added? Anyway, as this is a warning seems not to impede the the installation: -------------- Successfully installed PDL-2.007 (upgraded from 2.4.11) Installing ~/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.16.0/lib/site_perl/5.16.0/x86_64-linux/.meta/PDL-2.007/install.json Installing ~/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.16.0/lib/site_perl/5.16.0/x86_64-linux/.meta/PDL-2.007/MYMETA.json 1 distribution installed ----------------- Note: a dependency of PDL is Module::Compile, but this does not get installed with cpanm because one of its dependencies it is not stated in the package dependencies: Module::Install. This is a known bug https://github.com/ingydotnet/module-compile-pm/issues/1 but in my case was more cryptic than the ones reported: | PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 ~/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.16.0/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t | t/000-compile-modules.t .. 1/? | # Failed test 'use Module::Compile;' | # at t/000-compile-modules.t line 11. | # Tried to use 'Module::Compile'. | # Error: Can't open (eval 6) for input: ###<<<<<<======= | # No such file or directory at ~/.cpanm/work/1419122233.15164/Module-Compile-0.34/blib/lib/Module/Compile.pm line 201. | # BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 6) line 2. | | # Failed test 'use Module::Optimize;' | # at t/000-compile-modules.t line 11. | # Tried to use 'Module::Optimize'. | # Error: Can't open (eval 7) for input: | # No such file or directory at ~/.cpanm/work/1419122233.15164/Module-Compile-0.34/blib/lib/Module/Compile.pm line 201. | # BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 7) line 2. | # Looks like you failed 2 tests of 5. In my errors it was not mention what was the problem, looking at bugs opened I saw that the a missed dependency was the culprit Module::Install. I installed it and all went fine. I mention this here just in case you want to add this as a NOTE in the web page for PDL installation. Pablo On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 9:41 PM, Chris Marshall <devel.chm...@gmail.com> wrote: > All- > > I've just reviewed the status of the bug and feature request trackers at > the PDL site on sf.net: > > http://sourceforge.net/p/pdl/bugs/ > http://sourceforge.net/p/pdl/feature-requests/ > > I found a number of bug tickets that had already been fixed and determined > that there are a fair number of tickets that are either low hanging fruit > or already fixed but need to be verified to close. > > I had hoped that the 64bit support could have been finished by now but > lack of developers to debug the final issue and time for me to get back to > it, has it still in limbo. We have a number of nice improvements in the > hopper already and it has been a little more than a year since PDL-2.007. > > I propose we make a bug fix/clean up/... release of PDL-2.008 for January > 2015---regardless of whether the remaining 64bit index support is > finished. I encourage all users and developers to take this opportunity to > take a look at the outstanding bugs and close them. There are a number of > feature requests that relate to some items such as improved PDL docs > handling that could also be addressed for this release. > > And, of course, I would love some assistance to finish the implementation > debugging for the PDL-2.x 64bit index support. :-) > > As always, thoughts and suggestions welcome! > Chris > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Perldl mailing list > Perldl@jach.hawaii.edu > http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl > >
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