Re: 19990624: Udunits installation under AIX 4.3

Mike,

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> cc: Mike Mikitiuk <address@hidden>
> From: "'Mike Mikitiuk'" <address@hidden>
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> Keywords: 199906242044.OAA04755

In the above message, you wrote:

> I am trying to set up GEMPAK on our site as follows:
> 
> (1) I have downloaded Udunits, LDM and GEMPAK distributions to our 
> programming disk and uncompressed and detarred the files into the 
> following directories ...
> 
>     /prog/gempak/udunits-1.11.7
>     /prog/gempak/ldm-5.0.6
>     /prog/gempak/NAWIPS-5.4
> 
> (2) I tried to install udunits first of all, but I ran into problems at 
> the "make" stage.
> 
> I have attached the items 'A' through 'F' as per your "problems" 
> instructions and hope that you can help diagnose the problem.
> 
> I am installing (trying to) these packages on an IBM RS6000  under AIX 4.3.
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> 
> Mike
> 
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...

> making `all' in directory /prog/gempak/udunits-1.11.7/src/udunits
> 
>       c89 -c -O -I../lib -I../port/misc  -D_ALL_SOURCE -Dextname udunits.c
> c89 -o udunits -O udunits.o -L/prog/gempak/udunits-1.11.7/src/lib -ludunits 
> -L/prog/gempak/udunits-1.11.7/src/port/misc -ludport -ly -lm
> Target "all" is up to date.
> 
> returning to directory /prog/gempak/udunits-1.11.7/src
> 
>       cd perl && perl Makefile.PL
> syntax error in file Makefile.PL at line 2, next 2 tokens "use ExtUtils"
> syntax error in file Makefile.PL at line 6, next 2 tokens "WriteMakefile("
> Execution of Makefile.PL aborted due to compilation errors.
> make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 255.
> make: 1254-005 Ignored error code 255 from last command.
> 
> making `dynamic' in directory /prog/gempak/udunits-1.11.7/src/perl
> 
> make: 1254-002 Cannot find a rule to create target dynamic from dependencies.
> Stop.
> make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 1.
> 
> 
> Stop.

It appears that you have version 4 of the Perl utility rather than
version 5.  You must have version 5 in order to build the Perl extension
module for UDUNITS (see file INSTALL for more information).  

You can either install version 5 of Perl and then retry or skip building
the Perl extension module altogether.  If you decide to skip building
the extension module, then do the following:

    1.  Go to the top-level source directory of the UDUNITS package.

    2.  Perform steps 3 through 5 in the "IF PROBLEMS OCCUR" section
        in the INSTALL file.

    3.  Set the environment variable PERL to the empty string.

    4.  Perform steps 6 through 9 in the "IF PROBLEMS OCCUR" section
        in the INSTALL file.

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