problem installing module Term::ReadLine::Gnu

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

Dear monks,

has anyone experience with installing the module Term::ReadLine::Gnu on Mac OS X 10.5.1? I have no success until now and I'm not sure it is system related. I do:

    perl Makefile.PL
[download]

Terminal then says:

It seems that you have the GNU Readline Library version EditLine wrapp
+er.
Writing Makefile for Term::ReadLine::Gnu
[download]

Then I give the make command and it gives a lot of output that finishes with:

Gnu.xs:2740: error: ‘rl_binding_keymap’ undeclared (first use in this 
+function)
Gnu.xs: In function ‘XS_Term__ReadLine__Gnu__XS__get_history_event’:
Gnu.xs:2468: warning: assignment discards qualifiers from pointer targ
+et type
Gnu.xs: In function ‘XS_Term__ReadLine__Gnu__Var__rl_fetch_keymap’:
Gnu.xs:2737: error: ‘rl_executing_keymap’ undeclared (first use in thi
+s function)
Gnu.xs:2740: error: ‘rl_binding_keymap’ undeclared (first use in this 
+function)
lipo: can't open input file: /var/folders/5Y/5YTr92E8HieVrE5qJ2cyYk+++
+TI/-Tmp-//cc798I58.out (No such file or directory)
make: *** [Gnu.o] Error 1
[download]

No idea what this all means. Haven't got any experience with this. Thanks for any help.

Gert

Comment on problem installing module Term::ReadLine::Gnu Select or Download Code

Replies are listed 'Best First'.
Re: problem installing module Term::ReadLine::Gnu by eserte (Deacon) on Dec 10, 2007 at 19:58 UTC
If you look at CPAN testers results, then it seems that the module has many problems on most platforms and perl versions. Especially it seems that nobody was able to compile and pass all tests on perl 5.10.0.	[reply]
Re^2: problem installing module Term::ReadLine::Gnu by GertMT (Hermit) on Dec 10, 2007 at 21:21 UTC
okay, thanks. I'll make note of that site for future reference	[reply]
Re^3: problem installing module Term::ReadLine::Gnu by sgt (Deacon) on Dec 10, 2007 at 23:02 UTC
Actually cpan search has already all the links you need: if you search for Term::Readline::Gnu and then open it you can see the results of cpan testers in the view link cheers --stephan	[reply]
Re^2: problem installing module Term::ReadLine::Gnu by syphilis (Archbishop) on Dec 10, 2007 at 23:39 UTC
it seems that the module has many problems on most platforms and perl versions Not that I checked all of the failure reports, but I couldn't find one that failed in the same way as happened for the op. In the vast majority of cases, the module compiled ... but not in this particular instance. GertMT, a better clue to the cause of the failure might have been given earlier - so it might be worth giving us a look at the entire `make` output. The README in the Term-ReadLine-Gnu-1.16 source distro states: "You must have GNU Readline Library Version 2.1 or later. See INSTALL for more detail." Do you satisfy that requirement ? Cheers, Rob	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: problem installing module Term::ReadLine::Gnu by GertMT (Hermit) on Dec 13, 2007 at 12:40 UTC
mmhh, you're right. I do not satisfy this requirement. Haven't read the documentation well enough, apologies. Just tried to install GNU Readline Library Version 2.1 but didn't manage to do that. `checking host system type... configure: error: can not guess host type +; you must specify one` [download] I'm more of a perl user than programmer so I'm stuck here. Gert	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: problem installing module Term::ReadLine::Gnu by syphilis (Archbishop) on Dec 13, 2007 at 13:23 UTC
Re^5: problem installing module Term::ReadLine::Gnu by GertMT (Hermit) on Dec 16, 2007 at 14:43 UTC