Re: netCDFPerl installation on HP-UX: binary-only perl package

Kevin,

Details below...


On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Steve Emmerson wrote:

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> To: Kevin Fuell <address@hidden>
> cc: support-netcdf-perl
> Subject: Re: netCDFPerl installation on HP-UX: binary-only perl package
> In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 06 Aug 1998 20:43:13 GMT."
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> Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1998 09:17:14 -0600
> From: Steve Emmerson <address@hidden>
> 
> Kevin,
> 
> >Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1998 20:43:13 GMT
> >From: Kevin Fuell <address@hidden>
> >Organization: NOAA/NOS/CSDL
> >To: address@hidden (Steve Emmerson)
> >Subject: Re: 980728: netCDFPerl installation 
> >Keywords: 199807282109.PAA13606
> 
> In the above message, you wrote:
> 
> > I finally got netcdf-perl-1.2 to install.
> 
> Great!
> 
> > I don't think the problem was
> > with the "bit" setting but who know's.  What I did was that I used some
> > settings for the env that another person, Clark Safford from the Atlanta
> > NWSFO, gave to me to try for Netcdf-3.4.  
> > 
> > 
> > CC=c89;export CC
> > CCPFLAGS='-D_HPUX_SOURCE -DNDEBUG'; export CCPFLAGS
> > CFLAGS='-O +z'; export CFLAGS
> > FC=fort77; export FC
> > FFLAGS='-O3 -w'
> > CXX=CC; export CXX
> > --
> > 
> > as opposed to :
> > 
> > CC=/bin/c89;export CC
> > CCPFLAGS='-D_HPUX_SOURCE; export CCPFLAGS
> > CFLAGS=+z; export CFLAGS
> > FC=/opt/fortran/bin/fort77; export FC
> > FFLAGS=-w
> > CXX=/user/bin/cc; export CXX
> 
> Bizarre!  I don't see anything in the above that would make a
> difference.
> 
> > Now, I have a new problem.  I'm trying to do the same thing (which is to
> > install perl, netcdf, and netcdf-perl), but on a different HP.  The perl
> > was already there although it was mostly the binaries.  The version of
> > perl is the same as my HP so I didn't re-install.  Also when I did a
> > `chatr perl` on my HP and the 2nd HP the output was the same so I
> > figured that the dynamic properties for the libraries were already set.
> > 
> > I installed the netcdf-3.4 using the first set of env variables above.
> > That seemed to go fine once I had installed the ANSI-C compiler.  
> > 
> > Then I tried the netcdf-perl-1.2.  I'm sending the list of info that is
> > required under the "SUPPORT" section.   It "bombs" when I try the `make
> > perl/Makefile.PL` command.  It seems to not be able to find the
> > MakeMaker.pm file.  So I looked on my HP and saw in was in the perl
> > directories and then looked on the 2nd HP and couldn't find them.
> > Remember that perl was already there although there were difference
> > between the 2nd HP's directories and my HP's directories.  So I tar'ed
> > the /lib directory which contained the /ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm and ftp'ed
> > it to the  2nd HP and untar'ed it in the /usr/local/perl5 directory
> > which created a new /lib directory (I switch the original /lib to
> > /lib.old).  Ran it again and realized that the paths the errors were
> > giving all started with /opt, but in the CUSTOMIZE file I stated that
> > the perl source directory was /usr/local/perl5.  So why does it say the
> > everything in @INC starts with /opt?  The error also says that the @INC
> > is the 2nd line in the Makefile.PL but I sure don't see any "@INC"
> > anywhere.  This is strange.  So I think the problem is know how to
> > change the /opt/perl to /usr/local/perl5.
> 
> I'd really like to help you but I don't know all that much about perl.
> You'd be better off posting this question to a perl mailing-list or
> newsgroup.
> 
> Having said that, I suspect that the perl installation on the first
> system was built assuming /opt/perl as the installation directory.  When
> you copied the files over, you also copied that assumption.
> 
> I could be that extension modules can't be built for perl packages that
> weren't installed from source.
> 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 1) HP-UX wbcsoo B.10.20 A 9000/715 2003533703 two-user license
> > 
> > 2) 3.4
> > 
> > 3) # ./configure > configure.log 2>&1 
> > # more configure.log
> > creating cache ./config.cache
> > checking for catman... catman
> > checking for perl utility... /usr/local/perl5/bin/perl
> > checking for perl manual page directory... /usr/local/man
> > checking for neqn... neqn
> > checking for tbl... tbl
> > checking for C compiler... c89
> > checking type of operating system... hpux10
> > checking for tar flags... -chof
> > checking for netCDF header-file... -I/usr/local/netcdf-3.4/include
> > checking for netCDF library... -L/usr/local/netcdf-3.4/lib -lnetcdf
> > checking for package version... 1.2
> > updating cache ./config.cache
> > creating ./config.status
> > creating Makefile
> > creating perl/Makefile.PL
> > creating port/master.mk
> > creating port/Makefile
> > expanding `include's in file `Makefile'
> > expanding `include's in file `perl/Makefile.PL'
> > expanding `include's in file `port/master.mk'
> > expanding `include's in file `port/Makefile'
> > 
> > 4) which c89
> > /usr/bin/c89
> > 
> > 5) more config.log
> > This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
> > running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.
> > 
> > 6) # make all > all.log 2>&1
> > # more all.log
> >         cd perl && /usr/local/perl5/bin/perl Makefile.PL
> > Can't locate ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
> > /opt/perl5/lib/PA-RIS

Two things to check, 

1) All the perl modules need to be installed in /opt/perl5/lib.  Compare
this dir to the other HP perl installation.

2) In the file Makefile.PL add this line after the first line;

push( @INC, "/opt/perl5/lib" ) ;


This should do help find the ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm  module


Robb...



> > C2.0/5.00404 /opt/perl5/lib /opt/perl5/lib/site_perl/PA-RISC2.0
> > /opt/perl5/lib/s
> > ite_perl .) at Makefile.PL line 2.
> > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at Makefile.PL line 2.
> > *** Error exit code 2
> > 
> > Stop.
> > 
> > 7) # make test > test.log 2>&1
> > # more test.log
> >         cd perl && /usr/local/perl5/bin/perl Makefile.PL
> > Can't locate ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
> > /opt/perl5/lib/PA-RIS
> > C2.0/5.00404 /opt/perl5/lib /opt/perl5/lib/site_perl/PA-RISC2.0
> > /opt/perl5/lib/s
> > ite_perl .) at Makefile.PL line 2.
> > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at Makefile.PL line 2.
> > *** Error exit code 2
> > 
> > Stop.
> > 
> > 8) # make install > install.log 2>&1
> > # more install.log
> >         cd perl && /usr/local/perl5/bin/perl Makefile.PL
> > Can't locate ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
> > /opt/perl5/lib/PA-RIS
> > C2.0/5.00404 /opt/perl5/lib /opt/perl5/lib/site_perl/PA-RISC2.0
> > /opt/perl5/lib/s
> > ite_perl .) at Makefile.PL line 2.
> > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at Makefile.PL line 2.
> > *** Error exit code 2
> > 
> > Stop.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> >     Kevin
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