Re^2: problem installing module Term::ReadLine::Gnu

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

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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
Just tried to install GNU Readline Library Version 2.1 but didn't manage to do that I don't have any experience in trying to build the ReadLine library ... so I'm not very well qualified to be giving advice :-) But firstly, afaict, the latest version is 5.2 - and you would probably be better off trying to install that version (rather than 2.1). When they say that 2.1 is required, they really mean that "2.1 or later" is required. The actual error you got (which, I assume, was produced when running `./configure`) would indicate that `./configure` was unable to determine your OS/architecture. What does `./config.guess` report ? Perhaps the ability to guess correctly has been enhanced in the latest version of Gnu ReadLine ? Is there, perchance, an RPM of a suitably recent version of Gnu ReadLine that you could install (thereby eliminating the need for you to build it yourself) ? Cheers, Rob	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^5: problem installing module Term::ReadLine::Gnu by GertMT (Hermit) on Dec 16, 2007 at 14:43 UTC
Thanks for your replies. I did some more googling and looked for an RPM. I decided to let go. I see to many things of which I've no real idea what, while installing, they would do to my system. I'll check later this year in a quiet week if I see a chance of installing. Thanks again, Gert	[reply]