Re: [Discuss] perl/Tk

2015-02-27 Thread Mike Small
dan moylan j...@moylan.us writes: running fc21 on acer aspire E1-472P-6860 trying to install perl/Tk -- i needed two other installs first, and did those: yum install libX11-devel yum install gcc cpan -i Tk I see you've gotten what you need from your linux distro's package system,

Re: [Discuss] Verizon Landline Strikes Again

2015-02-27 Thread Bill Horne
On 2/26/2015 4:14 PM, Bouman MC wrote: Fact1: I choose dial up landline service as a brass tacks answer to hacking: Hacking can't happen, unless someone climbs a pole. Sorry, that's not correct. Once you connect to the Internet, you're just like every other Verizon user, no matter which

Re: [Discuss] perl/Tk

2015-02-27 Thread Bill Ricker
This is likely caused by a miss-match of binary and headers or flags for libpng.a . Looks like specifically png_init_mmx_flags is missing in link, so I'm thinking one was built for modern processor and one for older/portable x86. You may need to diagnose what headers and IFDEFs were included in

[Discuss] perl/Tk

2015-02-27 Thread dan moylan
running fc21 on acer aspire E1-472P-6860 trying to install perl/Tk -- i needed two other installs first, and did those: yum install libX11-devel yum install gcc cpan -i Tk the cpan installation went on for quite a while, but at the end, i got: make[2]: Leaving directory

Re: [Discuss] perl/Tk

2015-02-27 Thread Richard Pieri
On 2/27/2015 5:33 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote: First of all, see if you can abandon cpan, and use packages that are built in to your yum repository. Much more reliable (and faster.) Yep. If you cannot avoid perl then avoid CPAN at all costs. It will screw you over. Packages in CPAN

Re: [Discuss] perl/Tk

2015-02-27 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of dan moylan trying to install perl/Tk Eee... Gross. the cpan installation went on for quite a while, but at the If there was ever an argument for why perl sucks, besides the language itself being crap,

Re: [Discuss] perl/Tk

2015-02-27 Thread Bill Ricker
Ignoring Ned's inflammatory rant, he has a kernel of sense - if you can abandon cpan, and use packages that are built in to your yum repository. As a Perl pro, i agree with this much with Ned's rant -- this is very good advice for C-based binary extensions (including library wrappers such as

Re: [Discuss] perl/Tk

2015-02-27 Thread dan moylan
chuch anderson writes: Instead of using CPAN, why don't you just do this: yum install perl-Tk indeed, why didn't i? i didn't know any better. now i did and all is well. thank you. ole dan j. daniel moylan 84 harvard ave brookline, ma 02446-6202 617-777-0207 (cel) j...@moylan.us