Can't install perl quote modules

[Donald Allen]

On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 10:27 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

>
> On Aug 8, 2011, at 3:38 PM, Donald Allen wrote:
>
> > On my usual Slackware (13.37, 64-bit) system, I have 2.4.7 installed,
> which
> > I did by downloading the slackbuild from slackbuilds.org, changing the
> > version in the gnucash.Slackbuild script to 2.4.7, and downloading the
> > source tarball from gnucash.org. It built normally, producing a
> slackware
> > package, which I then installed. It works fine, except I cannot get the
> perl
> > online quote-fetching modules to install properly. Here's what I'm
> seeing:
> >
> >  CPAN.pm: Going to build E/EC/ECOCODE/Finance-Quote-1.17.tar.gz
> >
> > Warning: Prerequisite 'HTML::TreeBuilder => 0' for
> > 'ECOCODE/Finance-Quote-1.17.tar.gz' failed when processing
> > 'JFEARN/HTML-Tree-4.2.tar.gz' with 'make_test => NO'. Continuing, but
> > chances to succeed are limited.
> > Warning: Prerequisite 'Crypt::SSLeay => 0' for
> > 'ECOCODE/Finance-Quote-1.17.tar.gz' failed when processing
> > 'NANIS/Crypt-SSLeay-0.58.tar.gz' with 'make => NO'. Continuing, but
> chances
> > to succeed are limited.
> > Warning: Prerequisite 'HTTP::Request::Common => 0' for
> > 'ECOCODE/Finance-Quote-1.17.tar.gz' failed when processing
> > 'GAAS/HTTP-Message-6.02.tar.gz' with 'make => NO'. Continuing, but
> chances
> > to succeed are limited.
> > Warning: Prerequisite 'LWP::UserAgent => 0' for
> > 'ECOCODE/Finance-Quote-1.17.tar.gz' failed when processing
> > 'GAAS/libwww-perl-6.02.tar.gz' with 'make => NO'. Continuing, but chances
> to
> > succeed are limited.
> > Warning: Prerequisite 'HTML::TableExtract => 0' for
> > 'ECOCODE/Finance-Quote-1.17.tar.gz' failed when processing
> > 'MSISK/HTML-TableExtract-2.10.tar.gz' with 'make => NO'. Continuing, but
> > chances to succeed are limited.
> > Can't exec "./make": No such file or directory at
> > /usr/lib64/perl5/5.12.3/CPAN/Distribution.pm line 2026.
> >  ECOCODE/Finance-Quote-1.17.tar.gz
> >  ./make -- NOT OK
> > Running make test
> >  Can't test without successful make
> > Running make install
> >  Make had returned bad status, install seems impossible
> > root at sergei:/usr/bin$
> >
> > This was the end of an attempt to run qnc-fq-update. There were a fair
> > number of complaints prior to this about make failures. I assure you that
> > make is installed and works fine (I don't know perl -- perhaps that's not
> > the system make it's complaining about, but maybe some perl thing also
> named
> > make? I'm guessing here, obviously.). Any ideas?
>
> Try
> $ cpan -i Finance::Quote
>
> You might have to do it under sudo.
> If that doesn't work, something's borked with your system and you'll have
> to ask Slackware for help.
>

Thanks for trying -- doesn't work. Same problem; complaints about make:

"Running make install
  Make had returned bad status, install seems impossible"

I'm seeing the same symptom on multiple systems, so either it's inherent in
this release of Slackware, or I've fat-fingered each of the systems the same
way. I'm going to back out the 2.4.7 package I installed and install the
vanilla 2.4.5 package supplied by slackbuilds.org (recall that I did
something  a touch non-standard to get 2.4.7) and see if that fixes it. I'll
report back.

/Don

>
> Regards,
> John Ralls