Hi Tim et al. Please see the suggestion below for an amendment to the DBI readme. Sounds like a good idea to me.
Regards, Philip -----Original Message----- From: Steve Canfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 12:24 PM To: dbi-users@perl.org Subject: RE: "the same compiler that was used..." Thanks Philip! This morning before your email arrived it occured to me that binary Perl modules might be installed through Synatpic package manager the same way I installed gcc. For DBI and LWP that turned out to be the case. Installing libc6-dev (using Synaptic) allowed me to install the WeakRef perl module. I suspect that installing libc6-dev would have allowed me to compile DBI. So it perhaps the README for DBI could be expanded just a little. As I read the relevent section, it appears that there is only one solution to the problem: recompile Perl. Here's the section in question: "If you get compiler errors refering to Perl's own header files (.../CORE/*.h) or the compiler complains about bad options etc then there is something wrong with your installation. It is best to use a Perl that was built on the system you are trying to use and it's also important to use the same compiler that was used to build the Perl you are using." There may be two other ways to address the problem. Perhaps something like this would guide people towards solutions: "If you installed Perl using a binary distribution, such as ActiveState Perl, or if Perl came installed with the operating system you use, such as Debian or Ubuntu, then you may be able to install a precompiled binary of DBI using a package manager. Check the package manager for your distribution of Perl (e.g. ppm for ActiveState) or for your operating system (e.g Synaptic for Ubuntu). See [some URL here] for more information about package managers. You may also be able to augment your compiler with [not sure what to put here, perhaps someone in this mailing list can come up with something]." --- "Garrett, Philip (MAN-Corporate)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Canfield wrote: > > "the same compiler that was used..." > > > [snip] > > > > The entirety of the output of "perl Makefile.PL", > > "make", and "perl -V" are echoed below. However, > I > > believe the problem lies in this error and others > like > > it: > > > > /usr/lib/perl/5.8/CORE/perl.h:382:24: error: > > sys/types.h: No such file or directory > > Looks to me like you need the libdevel/libc6-dev > package: > http://packages.ubuntu.com/edgy/libdevel/libc6-dev > > Good luck! > > Regards, > Philip > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
