Re: sql-ledger Install problems flowchart

[Dr. R. J. M. <bo...@ho...>]

Steve,

Thank you for the install problems flowchart.  It arrived too late for me
to run it tonight, but I will try it tomorrow.

   How can I complete an upgrade to perl-5.6.1 started by CPAN?

The current status is that I have been trying to install DBD-Pg.  Installation
from an rpm package (0.73) was accomplished with apparent success, but only
changed the details of the error.  Subsequently, as advised by others, I
tried to use CPAN to install DBD::Pg.  CPAN upgraded my installed perl from
5.5.3 to 5.6.1, but any attempts to make, test, or install other bundles
now reports

    perl: error in loading shared libraries:
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i586-linux/auto/Storable/Storable.so:
    undefined symbol: cast_iv

/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i586-linux/auto is empty.

Attempts to make, test, or install Storable produce the error reported above.
This appears to be catch-22.  It can't build Storable.so-5.6.1 with
perl-5.6.1 and 5.5.3 libraries.  It can't build 5.6.1 libraries without
Storable.so-5.6.1.

perl -V now reports

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 6 subversion 1) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=2.2.13, archname=i586-linux
    uname='linux xxxxxx 2.2.13 #1 mon nov 8 15:08:22 cet 1999 i586 unknown '    config_args=''
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=unde
f
    useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
    use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='gcc', ccflags ='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_S
OURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64',
    optimize='-O2',
    cppflags='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include'
    ccversion='', gccversion='egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)',
 gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
    ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize
=8
    alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='gcc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
    libs=-lnsl -lndbm -lgdbm -ldbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lc -lposix -lcrypt -lutil
    perllibs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lc -lposix -lcrypt -lutil
    libc=, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynamic'
    cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'


Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
  Compile-time options: USE_LARGE_FILES
  Built under linux
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i586-linux
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i586-linux
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
    .

Thanks in advance,
-- 
Dr. Robert J. Meier
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