[Dxspider-support] install problems

[Kelly Jones]

Tom,

I went through the same "Perl Pain" about a week ago when trying to install 
a new node from scratch.  It seems that some of the CPAN modules insist on 
using a hard coded value for their compile procedure.

I first thought I'd would just manually add the .h files one at a time to 
the directory, but every time I added one, a "new" one was found to be 
missing.  That got old very quickly.

My solution was to download the full Perl source (v5.8.5 - the same as the 
Mandrake 10.1 disto) and recompile everything.  When you do the 
"configure", it will allow you to choose many things, one of them being the 
directories.  Point them to the same dirs that installed with the 10.1 
distro and just overwrite anything that's there.  After doing this all of 
your CPAN modules will compile without a hitch.

BTW, I don't recall, but I think Curses and TimeHiRes were the only two I 
had to add manually after installing MDRK10.1.

GL
Kelly - N0VD


At 09:38 PM 1/29/2005, you wrote:
>A bit of background.  I changed from AK1A to DXSpider about 7 weeks ago.
>The platform is running RH 9.0 and has been crashing after 1-8 days.  AX25
>interrupts are the supposed problem.  Responses to questions have led me to
>try to install Mandrake 10.1 on another computer.
>
>I keep finding modules missing from the mandrake system that are on the rh
>system.  The first was soundmodem.h which was needed by ax25-tools.  I ended
>up stealing it from the rh system and putting it in /usr/import/linux.
>ax25-tools at least compiled.  Now while trying to install Curses and
>Time-HiRes, they both stopped when make could not find
>/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-mult/CORE/EXTERN.h
>That particular directory has about 30 files on the RH system but just 3 on
>the mdk system.  Am I missing some package (maybe a perl package?)?  Any
>insight would be apprecialted.
>
>
>     tnx/73   Tom   WB8ZRL
>
>
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