There is a perl on the system already of course -- does this not do for some reason?

tom

On 5 June 2013 18:04, Tim Jenness <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

looks like it detected a dbm library that doesn't really work. I imagine you can't build perl generally without some tweaking.

Can you try to build a standalone perl?

On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Tom Marsh <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Today I cloned starlink from github and started to build it. I got as far as 'make configure-deps' but this fell over on perlsys/perl as follows:

cd thirdparty/perlsys/perl \
          &&amp; test -f config.status || ./configure >configure-output.log 2>configure-output.log.err || { cat configure-output.log.err; false; } \
          &&amp; (make &&amp; make install) >make.log 2>make.log.err || { cat make.log.err; false; }
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ListUtil.c: In function ‘XS_List__Util_min’:
ListUtil.xs:72: warning: ‘retval’ may be used uninitialized in this function
ListUtil.xs:72: note: ‘retval’ was declared here
Processing hints file hints/linux.pl
NDBM_File.c: In function ‘XS_NDBM_File_NEXTKEY’:
NDBM_File.c:465: warning: unused variable ‘key’
Processing hints file hints/linux.pl
ODBM_File.xs: In function ‘XS_ODBM_File_DESTROY’:
ODBM_File.xs:128: error: too few arguments to function ‘dbmclose’
make[3]: *** [ODBM_File.o] Error 1
Unsuccessful make(ext/ODBM_File): code=512 at make_ext.pl line 466.
make[2]: *** [lib/auto/ODBM_File/ODBM_File.so] Error 25
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make: *** [/home/astro/phsaap/software/gstar/manifests/perl] Error 1


Linux version:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (x86_64)
VERSION = 11
PATCHLEVEL = 2

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