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[Geert Janssens]

On Sunday 14 September 2014 20:37:10 John Ralls wrote:
> On Sep 14, 2014, at 11:01 AM, Andy Lavarre <alavarre at gmail.com> wrote:
> > John hello, thanks again:
> >> It’s a cmd file: install-fq-mods.cmd Regards, John Ralls
> > 
> > Done
> > 
> >    C:\Program Files\gnucash\bin>.\install-fq-mods.cmd
> > 
> > It runs in a terminal, but fails to install Strawberry Perl and
> > consequently fails a number of others.
> > 
> > I've posted my screen capture to Pastebin:
> >    http://pastebin.com/Ja6WBcDB
> > 
> > Is there an install log somewhere?
> > 
> > What appears to be the key failures are:
> > 
> > C:\strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe t/TEST 0
> > robot/ua-get.t ........ 1/8 HTTP Server terminated
> > robot/ua-get.t ........ Failed 5/8 subtests
> > robot/ua.t ............ 1/7 HTTP Server terminated
> > robot/ua.t ............ Failed 5/7 subtests
> > 
> > And thereafter a host of other errors.
> > 
> > The summary reinforces this:
> > 
> > Test Summary Report
> > -------------------
> > robot/ua-get.t      (Wstat: 0 Tests: 8 Failed: 5)
> > 
> >  Failed tests:  1-3, 5, 7
> > 
> > robot/ua.t          (Wstat: 0 Tests: 7 Failed: 5)
> > 
> >  Failed tests:  1-3, 5, 7
> > 
> > ...
> > 
> >  C:\strawberry\c\bin\dmake.exe test -- NOT OK
> > 
> > It also says
> > 
> >  Make had returned bad status, install seems impossible
> > 
> > Stopping: 'install' failed for 'Bit::Vector'.
> > 
> > * Run gnc-fq-check
> 
> The perl.exe problem looks like a loopback-alias problem that we've
> seen before, but since it proceeded to build other dependencies we
> can ignore it for now.
> 
> The real, and quite serious, problem is in Bit::Vector:
> gcc -c          -s -O2 -DWIN32 -DPERL_TEXTMODE_SCRIPTS
> -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT - DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -DUSE_PERLIO
> -fno-strict-aliasing -mms-bitfields -s -O2 -DVERSION=\"7.3\"    
> -DXS_VERSION=\"7.3\"  "-IC:\strawberry\perl\lib\CORE" BitVector.c
> dmake.exe:  Error code 129, while making 'BitVector.o'
>   STBEY/Bit-Vector-7.3.tar.gz
>   C:\strawberry\c\bin\dmake.exe -- NOT OK
> 
> It appears to me that that means that in order to build F::Q you now
> need a full MinGW build environment. That's a problem because while I
> have no doubt that you could set one up if you were sufficiently
> motivated, it's going to be utterly beyond most users.
> 
> Geert, Erik, any thoughts about how to get around this? Or am I all
> wet?
> 
I have no idea (yet). I have just tried to run install-fq-mods.cmd on my test system (after 
removing an old active state perl installation) and it runs successfully until completion.

My test system in Windows XP

So it seems something else must be going on in this case. The first thing that catches my 
attention in the full console output on pastebin is the "Access Denied" in line 11.

Perhaps there are some permission issues on the system that prevent perl from 
compiling Bit::Vector ?

I don't see much else I'm afraid...

Geert