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On Wed, 14 Aug 1996, Thomas L. Mote wrote: > ---------- > X-Sun-Data-Type: text > X-Sun-Data-Description: text > X-Sun-Data-Name: text > X-Sun-Charset: us-ascii > X-Sun-Content-Lines: 39 > > 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... > ---------- > X-Sun-Data-Type: default > X-Sun-Data-Name: log > X-Sun-Charset: us-ascii > X-Sun-Content-Lines: 10 > > 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... _______________________________________________________________________________ Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center Software Engineer Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research address@hidden WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/