Re: [Expectperl-discuss] IO-TTy installation error on AIX

[Ed R. <er...@pa...>]

> > While trying to install  IO-Tty-0.97_01  I get the following error:
> > 
> > 	/home/root/IO-Tty-0.97_01# perl Makefile.PL
> > 	Now let's see what we can find out about your system
> > 	(logfiles of failing tests are available in the conf/ dir)...
> > 
> > 	ERROR: cannot run the configured compiler cc_r
> > 	(see conf/compilerok.log).  Maybe you should build perl by 
> yourself?
...
> Perl has been configured to use 'cc_r' as its C compiler, but noew it 
> cannot be found in the PATH.

I had a similiar problem installing IO-Tty-1.0, but with "cpp".  On
my Red Hat 6.2 box, I was told that it couldn't find "cpp".  Well,
sure enough, "cpp" was in some exotic place so I added it to my
PATH and tried again.  This time, I got the complaint that "cpp" didn't
like one of the options in its flags.  I modified Config.pm to yank
that offending option, and then the install went OK.  That was with
Perl 5.6.1 - perhaps there are issues with the production of Config.pm?

> If you don't have 'cc_r' installed, 
> either edit Config.pm and change all commands and flags etc. to gcc 
> (ugh!) or build perl yourself using gcc.  Also, ask your friendly 
> sysadmin for help.

Funny.  I'm so used to making minor patches to these things that I
forgot completely about that problem until I read the post above.