19980203: Re: My operations O.K. ?

Dear Masakazu,

>Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 11:35:17 +0900 (JST)
>From: Masakazu Taguchi <address@hidden>
>Organization: Kyoto University
>To: address@hidden
>Subject: My operations O.K. ?
>Keywords: 199901250940.CAA05060

In the above message, you wrote:

> It is very kind of you to be so thoughtful.
> I let you know my decision, and could you check it please ?
> 
> 
> Recently, I have changed my mind 
> to skip installing the NetCDF perl extensions, 
> because I probably need only libudunits.a at the beginning and 
> because it's troublesome to reinstall gcc and perl to our systems.
> 
> 
> My grounds are found in README :
>   1. libudunits.a depends only on src/lib, dependent from src/perl, 
>   2. the NetCDF perl extensions mean src/perl.
> Are these correct ?
> 
> I tried as you told :
> 
> >    1.  Go to the top-level UDUNITS source directory.
> >    2.  Execute the command "make distclean".
> >    3.  Set your environment variables as before.
> >    4.  Set the environment variable PERL to the empty string.
> >    5.  Execute the configure script. 
> >    6.  Execute the command "make".  
> >    7.  Execute the command "make test". 
> >    8.  Execute the command "make install".  
> 
> But "make" brings about errors in src/perl : 
> #  returning to directory /u03d17/taguchi/lib/udunits/udunits-1.11.7/src
> #  cd perl &&  Makefile.PL
> #  sh: Makefile.PL: $B<B9T8"$,$"$j$^$;$s(B ( = You can not execute it. )
> #  *** Error code 1 (ignored)
> #  making `dynamic' in directory 
> #                      /u03d17/taguchi/lib/udunits/udunits-1.11.7/src/perl
> 
> It is because Makefile.PL can not be executed due to empty PERL, I guess.
> If PERL were not set to empty, 
> such errors would not occur by % perl Makefile.PL.

Odd.  Setting the PERL environment variable to the empty string should
have cause the "make" to skip the "per/" subdirectory.

> Instead of setting PERL to empty, 
> I remove perl/* from the targets in src/Makefile :
> # BEFORE all:         port/all lib/all udunits/all perl/dynamic
> # AFTER  all:         port/all lib/all udunits/all                etc., 
> since I do not need perl extensions.
> Then, I succeed to execute "make, make test, make install" .
> 
> Is libudunits.a perfect obtained from my operations above ? 

You did well.  The udunits library resulting from the above will be
good.  Go ahead and do a "make install".

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Steve Emmerson   <http://www.unidata.ucar.edu>