Re: 960814:

On Wed, 14 Aug 1996, Thomas L. Mote wrote:

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> Robb,
> 
> I downloaded the lastest netcdf-perl package. I tried to build it
> but got an error. From what I could tell, my perl version was 5.0 p3.
> I assumed this meant through patch 3. The netcdf-perl INSTALL guide
> calls for perl 5.001 through patch 4. I looked at the ftp site that
> is listed in the INSTALL guide for the latest perl patches. 
> 
> Perl version 5.001 is apparently no longer available. The "latest stable
> version" is 5.003. I did not see any patches for this version. I
> downloaded, built and installed it (sucessfully as far as I can tell).
> I just took the defaults that the configure script gave. There were
> far too many options that are way beyond my UNIX knowledge for me to
> start tinkering
> 
> I then tried to build netcdf-perl again (after running configure again)
> and got the errors that you will find in the attached "log" file. Do
> you have any ideas?
> 
> BTW, it does not seem that we needed perl for any previous decoders.
> Is unidata going to be incorporating perl more in the future? This is 
> an awful lot of pain to get the metar code decoding properly.
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> 
> > Hiya,
> > 
> > You missed step 2 in the metar2nc readme:
> > 
> > 2) The latest version of netcdf-perl package must be installed.
> > 
> > 
> > Look at http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf-perl/index.html
> > 
> > to find instructions on how to install netcdf-perl.  This creates the
> > Netcdf interface in perl, this is what the LDM was complaining about.
> > 
> > Robb...
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> cd perl && perl Makefile.PL
> "%att" is not exported by the ExtUtils::MakeMaker module at 
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/Exporter.pm line 95
>       Exporter::export called at /usr/local/lib/perl5/Exporter.pm line 149
>       Exporter::import called at Makefile.PL line 2
>       main::BEGIN called at /usr/local/lib/perl5/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm line 0
>       eval {...} called at /usr/local/lib/perl5/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm line 0
> Can't continue after import errors at Makefile.PL line 2
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at Makefile.PL line 2.
> *** Error code 2
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `perl/Makefile'

Hiya,

I found 2 errors in building the netcdf-perl package, one in the
netcdf-perl package and the other in the Makefile generated by perl.

edit file netcdf-perl/src/perl/Makefile.PL.in

change first line from:

use ExtUtils::MakeMaker qw(%att &WriteMakefile);

to: 

use ExtUtils::MakeMaker;

run:
% ./configure
% make

edit file netcdf-perl/src/perl/Makefile

change:

MOD_INSTALL = $(PERL) -I$(INST_LIB) -I$(PERL_LIB) -MExtUtils::Install \
-e 'install({@ARGV},"$(VERBINST)",0,"$(UNINST)");'
 

to:

MOD_INSTALL = $(PERL) -I$(INST_LIB) -I$(PERL_ARCHLIB) \
-I$(PERL_LIB) -MExtUtils::Install \
-e 'install({@ARGV},"$(VERBINST)",0,"$(UNINST)");'

run:

% make test
% make install  ( should be done as root )


The first problem is a syntax change that perl has for extensions and the
second problem is the install couldn't find the correct version of the
perl library "libperl.a"


Robb...


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Robb Kambic                                Unidata Program Center
Software Engineer                          Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research
address@hidden             WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/