Perl problem building NVU

Musikolo · 11-26-2006, 07:28 AM

Hi guys, I'm trying to build NVU. So I've tried to followed all the directions required to do so (http://www.nvu.com/Building_From_Source.php):

However, I get this error:

Code:

checking for perl5... no
checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
checking for minimum required perl version >= 5.004... 5.008008
checking for full perl installation... no
configure: error: Cannot find Config.pm or $Config{archlib}.  A full perl installation is required.
*** Fix above errors and then restart with "make -f client.mk build"
make: *** [/usr/src/yoper/SOURCES/mozilla/Makefile] Error 1

Have perl-5.8.8-9 installed. Thus, I've decided to look a bit into it and that's what I've found:

The line that generates the "checking for full perl installation... no" message is:

Code:

perl -e 'use Config; if ( -d $Config{archlib} ) { exit(0); } else { exit(1); }'

But testing this I've got this:

Code:

~$ perl -e 'use Config; if ( -d $Config{archlib} ) { exit(0); } else { exit(1); }'
~$ echo $?
1
~$ perl -e 'use Config; $Config{archlib};'
~$ perl -e 'use Config; print $Config{archlib};'
 /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi
~$ ls  /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi
B              Config.pod       DynaLoader.pm  Glib      IO.pm      PerlIO        Time          auto         limits.ph  stddef.ph     time.ph
B.pm           Config_heavy.pl  Encode         Glib.pm   IPC        RPM.pm        Unicode       bits         linux      sys           wait.ph
ByteLoader.pm  Cwd.pm           Encode.pm      Gtk2      MIME       SDBM_File.pm  XS            encoding.pm  machine    syscall.ph    xlocale.ph
CORE           DB_File.pm       Errno.pm       Gtk2.pm   O.pm       Safe.pm       XSLoader.pm   endian.ph    ops.pm     syslimits.ph
Cairo          Data             Fcntl.pm       Gtk2.pod  Opcode.pm  Socket.pm     _h2ph_pre.ph  features.ph  re.pm      syslog.ph
Cairo.pm       Devel            File           I18N      POSIX.pm   Storable.pm   asm           gnu          signal.ph  threads
Config.pm      Digest           GDBM_File.pm   IO        POSIX.pod  Sys           attrs.pm      lib.pm       stdarg.ph  threads.pm

Any help giving a clue about how to fix this will be really appreciated.

Cheers!

coolb · 11-26-2006, 08:32 AM

umm.. this might to far off, but do you have the perl binary in your path?

Musikolo · 11-26-2006, 09:08 AM

Hi Coolb, thanks for your reply. The answer to your question is yes, it is, otherwise my tests with it hadn't worked. Anyway you have this output that do confirm my answer:

Code:

~$ whereis perl
perl: /usr/bin/perl
~$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin

Although this issue is still unresolved, thanks a lot for you help!

jschiwal · 11-26-2006, 10:07 AM

I searched for Config.pm on my desktop:
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/ExtUtils/MakeMaker/Config.pm
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/Net/Config.pm
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/Config.pm
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/Encode/Config.pm
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Video/DVDRip/Config.pm
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/ModPerl/Config.pm
/usr/share/automake-1.9/Automake/Config.pm

Most were supplied by the perl package. I think that in my case, the referred to Config.pm would be /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/Config.pm since the others I looked at seem to be thin wrappers around the Config module.

Musikolo · 11-26-2006, 10:13 AM

Hi Jschiwal, thanks for your reply. As you can see in my first post (http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...72#post2518572) I have this path: /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi which seems to be right. Still don't know how to fix my issue. It looks a like a tough-to-fix matter.

Thanks for your reply anyway. I hope either you or any one else give me the key to sort it out soon!