On Wednesday 30 Dec 2009 08:12:24 Shankar wrote: > Hello, > Hi Shankar.
> (Firstly, Thanks to Matt Trout for pointing me to this forum. I re- > post my question below). > > I'm using perl on AIX, and my version is v5.8.2. 5.8.2 is incredibly old and broken. There are already perl-5.8.9 and perl-5.10.1 . It's hard to know whether it will cause problems in your case. > (Also, I'm a regular user, with no write permissions to run "make > install", so installing everything on my local home directory). You can still run "make install" with the appropriate PREFIX and/or DESTDIR flags. Also see local-lib : http://search.cpan.org/dist/local-lib/ > > My primary interest is in module Mail::Box. I downloaded this, and > realized that I needed to install several pre-requisites. > Subsequently, I tried installing pre-requisites such as, > TimeDate-1.20, Encode-2.39, and so on. > For each of these, as per instructions, I tried the following steps in > sequence: > > 1. perl Makefile.PL > 2. make > 3. make test > 4. make install (This fails, I think, because I don't have any root or > super user permissions to make a site-wide install. Is that correct? You can use local-lib for that. > > Steps 1 and 2 succeeded. > Step 3 in each of the modules that I attempted to install on my home > directory, gives an error that seems to say none of the *.t files are > readable. OK, just to make sure, what happens when you try to view these file using a pager such as "less" or "more"? What does "umask" return? Regards, Shlomi Fish > Example error is below. > Am I doing something wrong? > Can someone please help? > Also, I should be able to use the modules locally from my home > directory's subdirectories, even though Step 4 fails. Is that right? > > Thanks a lot. > > Thanks, S > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > E.g. , for "Encode-2.39": (I copy and paste from my xterm command line > output) > > PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" > "test_har > ness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t > t/Aliases..................t/Aliases.t is not readable > t/at-cn....................t/at-cn.t is not readable > t/at-tw....................t/at-tw.t is not readable > t/CJKT.....................t/CJKT.t is not readable > t/enc_data.................t/enc_data.t is not readable > t/enc_eucjp................t/enc_eucjp.t is not readable > t/enc_module...............t/enc_module.t is not readable > t/enc_utf8.................t/enc_utf8.t is not readable > t/Encode...................t/Encode.t is not readable > t/Encoder..................t/Encoder.t is not readable > t/encoding.................t/encoding.t is not readable > t/fallback.................t/fallback.t is not readable > t/from_to..................t/from_to.t is not readable > t/grow.....................t/grow.t is not readable > t/gsm0338..................t/gsm0338.t is not readable > t/guess....................t/guess.t is not readable > t/jis7-fallback............t/jis7-fallback.t is not readable > t/jperl....................t/jperl.t is not readable > t/mime-header..............t/mime-header.t is not readable > t/mime-name................t/mime-name.t is not readable > t/mime_header_iso2022jp....t/mime_header_iso2022jp.t is not readable > t/perlio...................t/perlio.t is not readable > t/piconv...................t/piconv.t is not readable > t/Unicode..................t/Unicode.t is not readable > t/utf8strict...............t/utf8strict.t is not readable > FAILED--25 test scripts could be run, alas--no output ever seen > make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 2 > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Freecell Solver - http://fc-solve.berlios.de/ Bzr is slower than Subversion in combination with Sourceforge. ( By: http://dazjorz.com/ ) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
