Can't install perl quote modules

[Donald Allen]

On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 10:35 PM, Donald Allen <donaldcallen at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 10:27 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
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>> On Aug 8, 2011, at 3:38 PM, Donald Allen wrote:
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>> > 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
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>> 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.
>>
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> Thanks for trying -- doesn't work. Same problem; complaints about make:
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> "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.
>

That doesn't work either. Bizarre. And I checked to be sure root's PATH
picks up the make you would expect, and it does:

root at sergei:/usr/bin$ which make
/usr/bin/make
root at sergei:/usr/bin$ make -v
GNU Make 3.82
Built for x86_64-slackware-linux-gnu
Copyright (C) 2010  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
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This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
root at sergei:/usr/bin$ gmake -v
GNU Make 3.82
Built for x86_64-slackware-linux-gnu
Copyright (C) 2010  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
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This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
root at sergei:/usr/bin$

I'll check with the Slackware people. Thanks for trying to help.

/Don

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> /Don
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>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
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