----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gisle Aas" <gisle@[...].com> 
To: "Sisyphus" <sisyphus1@[...].au> 
Cc: "ppm" <ppm@[...].com> 
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 6:04 PM
Subject: Re: PDL-2.4.3 build failure (perl-5.10)


>  The old PPM build system that produced this log file is no longer
>  maintained, but the new system also has problems with PDL, see
>  <http://ppm.activestate.com/beta/author/CSOE.html
>  >.   Not sure exactly where to begin fixing it.  Building of this
>  module seems to depend on ExtUtils-F77 and a Fortran compiler.

EU-F77 and a Fortran compiler are needed only to build parts of PDL. If
EU-F77 and/or the fortran compiler can't be found, PDL should still build
successfully - but minus some functionality.

The output at
http://ppm.activestate.com/beta/MSWin32-x86/5.8/818/C/CS/CSOE/PDL-2.4.3.d/log-20080712T18442
1.txt
looks very strange to me ... Oh, I see - ExtUtils::F77 is listed as a 
pre-requisite. That shouldn't be. I wonder why the 5.10 build doesn't fail 
in the same way. I'll take a closer look when I get a chance. (PDL-2.4.4 
should be coming out in the not-too-distant future - hence the interest in 
how to get this working.)

And I'll have to do a build of PDL with Visual Studio but minus the fortran 
compiler to see how it works. Currently, when I build PDL with Visual 
Studio, I'm using EU-F77 and MinGW's g77.exe fortran compiler. Hence I don't 
get to see some of these aspects.

The layout of
http://ppm.activestate.com/beta/MSWin32-x86/5.10/1000/C/CS/CSOE/PDL-2.4.3.d/log-20080608T194
941.txt
seems to me to all over the place, too - but at least we have:
--------------------------
All tests successful.
Files=104, Tests=768, 25 wallclock secs ( 0.11 usr +  0.39 sys =  0.50 CPU)
Result: PASS
--------------------------

It was apparently unpacked correctly - so at least we've established that my 
original request can be ignored :-)

The build at 
http://ppm.activestate.com/beta/MSWin32-x64/5.10/1000/C/CS/CSOE/PDL-2.4.3.d/log-20080906T005
753.txt 
seems to just stop for no apparent reason. I haven't yet tried building PDL 
myself on x64.

Thanks Gisle.

Cheers,
Rob

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