denise,
when reporting an error, you really should copy verbatim:
1. what you typed/tried doing
2. what the computer reported
saying that you "tried installing blah" is a good start but really not useful.
in addition, reporting one line of error is really not useful either.
consider the following code:
#include<stdio.h>
int main(void) {
integer i=1;
printf("%d\n", i);
return(0);
}
if you give one error message:
la.c:4: `i' undeclared (first use in this function)
i might be confused because i see "i" clearly defined, and might miss the
fact that i tried to define a variable using a fortran keyword. however, if
you quote the entire error message:
# gcc -Wall -pedantic -ansi -g la.c
la.c: In function `main':
la.c:3: `integer' undeclared (first use in this function)
la.c:3: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
la.c:3: for each function it appears in.)
la.c:3: parse error before `i'
la.c:4: `i' undeclared (first use in this function)
then the handwriting is on the wall: parse error before `i' on line 5.
please give me your input and the computer's output and i'll take a look.
also, please consider joining the lugod vox-tech mailing list. we have some
excellent people who are orders of magnitude more competant than i ever will
be. getting replies from them is the best way to fix problems, learn the
mistakes and have fun while you're doing it. :)
i've cc'd the vox-tech mailing list in case someone more experienced with
perl than i am knows the root of your problem immediately.
peter
ps- i thought 1 click was patented by amazon.com? ;)
On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Denise Snodderly wrote:
> We are trying to install ODBC dbi but keep getting this error: make:***
> [ODBC.o] Error 1. We are using Linux Mandrake 7 to do this and perl.
> If you could help us, please email or call me at 408-969-0836.
>
> Thanks,
> Denise Snodderly
> With1Click, Inc.
