[rt-users] Trouble upgrading to 3.8.1

[Kenneth Crocker]

Joop,


	I decided to try again. I have a couple questions:

	1) how do I know that the 'automatic' installs are installing the 
latest versions of perl, SearchBuilder, etc.?
	2) What am I really supposed to do with this result?

The automatic tests for GDGraph are not really a solid workout of the
library. The best way to test the package is to run the examples
before installing it.  You can run the examples in the samples
directory with `make samples` or by going into that directory, and
just running `make`.
If that fails, please read samples/Makefile.
---- Unsatisfied dependencies detected during ----
----       BWARFIELD/GDGraph-1.44.tar.gz      ----
     GD::Text [requires]
Shall I follow them and prepend them to the queue
of modules we are processing right now? [yes]

	Do I stop the 'make fixdeps' and run the 'make samples' (where IS the 
samples directory anyway)?


Kenn
LBNL

On 10/9/2008 10:41 AM, Joop van de Wege wrote:
> Kenneth Crocker wrote:
>>     Any clues as to why the "C" compiler is needed? Thanks.
> Not all Perl modules are Pure Perl modules which means that for example 
> GD has a Perl interface to the gd.so which fixdeps will try to compile 
> for you.
> That is probably not the right thing to say but I hope its close enough 
> for you to understand the why of th C compiler.
> 
> If you really get stuck I might be able to help out, since we used to be 
> quite involved with Sun Solaris.
> 
> Joop
> 
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