Re: Installing Perl Wrapper Module for a C Library (Tree::Suffix) Locally

I would very much like to see the first error that the CPAN shell gets - the errors you quote aren't useful. (They basically boil down to "something went wrong earlier").

That being said, your manual compilation attempt won't succeed because the first argument to perl isn't a perl script. Re-order your arguments and put Makefile.PL at the front:

~/.cpan/build/Tree-Suffix-0.12$ perl Makefile.PL CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -I$HO
+ME/MyBioTool/libstree-0.4.2/include" LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -L$HOME/MyBioT
+ool/libstree-0.4.2/lib"
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followed by the command make and, only if the previous command was successful, make test and then (again, only if make test was successful) make install.

@/=map{[/./g]}qw/.h_nJ Xapou cets krht ele_ r_ra/;
map{y/X_/\n /;print}map{pop@$_}@/for@/
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Re^2: Installing Perl Wrapper Module for a C Library (Tree::Suffix) Locally by bowei_99 (Friar) on Mar 15, 2006 at 15:40 UTC
Actually, since those variables should already be defined, according to your earlier posts, all you should need to type is `perl Makefile.PL $CFLAGS $LDFLAGS` [download] To make sure the variables are set correctly you can type `printenv \| grep FLAGS` [download] If they aren't set correctly, you can run the export command in an earlier posting to fix it. Also, if you don't want to sit around and wait (although for troubleshooting purposes, it's probably better to do so), you can type `perl Makefile.PL $CFLAGS $LDFLAGS && make && make test && make install` [download] The && means that the command will only execute if the previous one was OK. -- Burvil	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Installing Perl Wrapper Module for a C Library (Tree::Suffix) Locally by fizbin (Chaplain) on Mar 15, 2006 at 15:45 UTC
I think you meant `perl Makefile.PL "CFLAGS=$CFLAGS"` [download] etc. But in any case, this doesn't matter, since Makefile.PL doesn't accept CFLAGS or LDFLAGS as arguments. -- `@/=map{[/./g]}qw/.h_nJ Xapou cets krht ele_ r_ra/; map{y/X_/\n /;print}map{pop@$_}@/for@/` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Installing Perl Wrapper Module for a C Library (Tree::Suffix) Locally by bowei_99 (Friar) on Mar 15, 2006 at 16:16 UTC
Yeah, I realized that, too. I guess if the poster wanted those variables set when he runs make, he'd have to edit the Makefile directly, then run make ... -- Burvil	[reply]
Re^2: Installing Perl Wrapper Module for a C Library (Tree::Suffix) Locally by monkfan (Curate) on Mar 15, 2006 at 15:28 UTC
I would very much like to see the first error that the CPAN shell gets Hi fizbin, This is the error I got: Read more... (11 kB) Running simple command: `$ perl Makefile.PL $ make $ make install` [download] gave the same error as above Regards, Edward	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Installing Perl Wrapper Module for a C Library (Tree::Suffix) Locally by Corion (Patriarch) on Mar 15, 2006 at 15:38 UTC
The problematic line is this line: `Note (probably harmless): No library found for -lstree` [download] I don't know why MakeMaker outputs this "propably harmless" message, because in my experience, it has never been harmless whenever I encountered it. This error message means that the Makefile.PL could not find the library `stree`, most likely because you didn't supply the correct `-L` and `-I` switches to it. This seems especially valid as your `stree` library is installed in an uncommon path I think. You will have to run your Makefile.PL manually and supply the correct paths to where the header/include files of the `stree` library got installed. Most likely like: `perl -w Makefile.PL "INCLUDE=-I ../stree/include" "LIBS=-L ../stree/li +b"` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Installing Perl Wrapper Module for a C Library (Tree::Suffix) Locally by fizbin (Chaplain) on Mar 15, 2006 at 15:54 UTC
Okay, so it would appear that Makefile.PL and CPAN are not honoring your cflags environment setting. Furthermore, it appears that you need to pass extra C flag arguments to Makefile.PL as "CCFLAGS", not "CFLAGS". So, I would suggest trying this: `perl Makefile.PL CCFLAGS="$CFLAGS" LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS"` [download] That should produce a Makefile that you can use with "make". -- `@/=map{[/./g]}qw/.h_nJ Xapou cets krht ele_ r_ra/; map{y/X_/\n /;print}map{pop@$_}@/for@/` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]


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