Message Queue in Perl

QuillMeantTen has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Greetings,
Thanks to the comment of a more experienced monk I have been made aware of a vast field of software engineering known as message queue.
After a bit of googling and a lot of stackoverflowing I went to have a look at Spread. Since it has a package on cpan I decided to install it (using someone else's better built code would save me a lot of debugging and rewriting). Then I got this :

Reading '/root/.cpan/Metadata'
  Database was generated on Thu, 27 Aug 2015 07:53:25 GMT
Running install for module 'Spread'
Checksum for /root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/J/JE/JESUS/Spread-3.17.4.4
+.tar.gz ok
Scanning cache /root/.cpan/build for sizes
......................................................................
+......DONE
'YAML' not installed, will not store persistent state
Configuring J/JE/JESUS/Spread-3.17.4.4.tar.gz with Makefile.PL
Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Warning: -L../.. changed to -L/root/.cpan/build/Spread-3.17.4.4-VvdIsK
+/../..
Warning (mostly harmless): No library found for -lspread
Generating a Unix-style Makefile
Writing Makefile for Spread
Writing MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json
  JESUS/Spread-3.17.4.4.tar.gz
  /usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=site -- OK
Running make for J/JE/JESUS/Spread-3.17.4.4.tar.gz
cp Spread.pm blib/lib/Spread.pm
AutoSplitting blib/lib/Spread.pm (blib/lib/auto/Spread)
Running Mkbootstrap for Spread ()
chmod 644 "Spread.bs"
"/usr/bin/perl" "/usr/share/perl/5.14/ExtUtils/xsubpp"  -typemap "/usr
+/share/perl/5.14/ExtUtils/typemap" -typemap "typemap"  Spread.xs > Sp
+read.xsc && mv Spread.xsc Spread.c
cc -c  -I ../.. -I ../spread-src-3.17.0/ -D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -D
+DEBIAN -fstack-protector -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/incl
+ude -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -O2 -g   -DVERSION=\"3
+.17.4.4\" -DXS_VERSION=\"3.17.4.4\" -fPIC "-I/usr/lib/perl/5.14/CORE"
+   Spread.c
Spread.xs:15:16: fatal error: sp.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
make: *** [Spread.o] Error 1
  JESUS/Spread-3.17.4.4.tar.gz
  /usr/bin/make -- NOT OK
Failed during this command:
 JESUS/Spread-3.17.4.4.tar.gz                 : make NO
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I'm using debian wheezy, it seems other peoples have encountered the same problem but I had no luck finding an answer, so if anyone here used that package successfully I'd love to know how (sh|h)e did it.
Cheers!

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Re: Message Queue in Perl by karlgoethebier (Abbot) on Aug 27, 2015 at 17:52 UTC
QuillMeantTen, for curiosity i tried to install Spread on my Mac (10.7.5) via cpanm and got the same error: `'sp.h' file not found`. But after downloading the sources from spread.org and compiling them i had success: `karls-mac-mini:spread-src-4.4.0 karl$ cpanm Spread --> Working on Spread Fetching http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/J/JE/JESUS/Spread-3.17.4.4.tar +.gz ... OK Configuring Spread-3.17.4.4 ... OK Building and testing Spread-v3.17.4.4 ... OK Successfully installed Spread-v3.17.4.4 1 distribution installed karls-mac-mini:spread-src-4.4.0 karl$ perl -MSpread ^C` [download] I hope that helps or is at least inspiring ;-) Minor Edit: Fixed my name... Best regards, Karl ŤThe Crux of the Biscuit is the Apostropheť	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Message Queue in Perl by QuillMeantTen (Friar) on Aug 27, 2015 at 19:16 UTC
Yay, did the same thing, it works.	[reply]
Re^2: Message Queue in Perl by karlgoethebier (Abbot) on Aug 27, 2015 at 21:15 UTC
"...it works." Very nice. But before i do more RTFM about what this new module on my box is good for it would be nice to hear something about what your plan/project is... Best regards, Karl ŤThe Crux of the Biscuit is the Apostropheť	[reply]
Re^3: Message Queue in Perl by QuillMeantTen (Friar) on Aug 27, 2015 at 22:13 UTC
I can tell you. .. But then I'll have to kill you. nah, more seriously I've been learning perl for about two weeks to prepare myself for next university year (last one before a master in computer security) I decided to write a surveillance/log management system that would parse logs, fill dublin core style tables in a mysql database and then run diagnostics to detect discrepancies that might indicate hostile activities with that data it would write reports and email them. Each main unit should be able to run on a separate machine. Hence the message queue issue	[reply]
Re^4: Message Queue in Perl by karlgoethebier (Abbot) on Aug 28, 2015 at 06:44 UTC
Re: Message Queue in Perl by aitap (Curate) on Aug 27, 2015 at 16:22 UTC
`No library found for -lspread ... Spread.xs:15:16: fatal error: sp.h: No such file or directory` [download] You need to install an additional library, but there doesn't seem to be a package containing a library for `-lspread` or a suitable `sp.h`. Unless there is a libspread package in Debian which I failed to find, you'll have to compile it by hand, then retry the CPAN module installation. By the way, there was a Spread binding in Debian Squeeze (which did contain all the necessary files), but it's removed now.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Message Queue in Perl by neilwatson (Priest) on Aug 27, 2015 at 15:13 UTC
A dubious looking module. No dependencies list and no tests. Neil Watson watson-wilson.ca	[reply]
Re^2: Message Queue in Perl (Spread) by toolic (Bishop) on Aug 27, 2015 at 15:21 UTC
no tests There is a test, but it is old-school (test.pl, not in "t" directory). However, CPAN Testers show the test failing on most platforms (Spread). Since "CPAN Testers Websites Are Down", it is not currently easy to figure out how the test is failing on other platforms.	[reply]
Re: Message Queue in Perl by QuillMeantTen (Friar) on Aug 27, 2015 at 17:38 UTC
I'll give it a look... Anyone can suggest another solution? Not that I'm not proud of my homegrown code but I'd really prefer something more reliable :s	[reply]