Dear Pete, Jay and Brian, Thanks a lot for your help. I got GD to work by limiting the support options. Basically I build it with only JPEG support and that worked quite well. Now I just have to deal with the little problem of having two Perl versions on my system.
Learning athough painful can be Fun. Alfredo -----Original Message----- From: Brian Lavender [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 7:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [vox-tech] Need help with bad Perl On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 12:57:14PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > begin ALLO (Alfredo Lopez) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > I found out that according to one of the Bioinformatics wizards at > > Cold Spring Harbor the problem is Perl: > > > > "This problem has been reported under some versions of SuSE and > > RedHat Linux (it appears to be related to a particular RPM > > distribution of Perl). Perl was built incorrectly, causing some but > > not all loadable modules to fail. The only solution I know of is to > > rebuild Perl correctly from scratch and reinstall all > > previously-installed modules." > > their explanation doesn't say much, but it DOES say that the problem > ain't perl. the problem is with suse and redhat's package of perl. > > > Has anybody experienced this? Is there a way to get around this > > other than building Perl. I don't know but for an inexperienced > > user like me, rebuilding Perl is not a trivial exercise. > > and how do you know this...experience? > > how do you know that building perl isn't as easy as: > > tar jxvf perl.tar.bz2 > cd perl > ./configure $ ./Configure -de (default everything) > make $ make test $ su > make install Make sure you have GD installed, and then you ought to be able to install GD, and the PERL module. > > > > BTY I am using the latest > > version of Caldera (Workstation 3.1) and I am getting next Friday a > > copy of RedHat 7.2. But I am almost sure 7.2 will have the same > > problem. > > something is terribly wrong here. you're not willing to install perl > from source code, but you ARE willing to install a new operating > system. > > do you see the irony here? :-) > > pete > > ps- if you still think installing an operating system is easier than > installing perl from source, i think your best recourse is to install > debian. _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech -- Brian Lavender http://www.brie.com/brian/ _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech