in reply to Issue in RawInflate.pm

I used the command perl -MCPAN -e "install PDL"

I can't supply a reason for the particular failure - I don't use CPAN.pm. However, there are 2 other alternatives for installing PDL on ActivePerl-5.10.0.

Firstly, you could run ppm install http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/PPMPackages/10xx/PDL.ppd

Or, if you really want to build PDL from source, download the PDL-2.4.3 source from CPAN, extract it to some location, cd to that location, edit the file 'perldl.conf' to suit your needs, and run (in order) perl Makefile.PL, followed by make install.

Note that you need to replace 'make' with either 'nmake' or 'dmake' (depending upon which flavour you are using), that you could optionally run make test before running make install, and that you'll need a working C compiler and 'make' utility for this second approach to work. The ppm approach I outlined is probably the best approach for you ... but I'm making assumptions, now :-)

Cheers,
Rob

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Re^2: Issue in RawInflate.pm
by Anonymous Monk on Sep 09, 2008 at 12:20 UTC
    Reccomended make is from Config
    C:\>perl -V:make
make='nmake';

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      Reccomended make is from Config

      Actually it's a case of "Mandatory make is from Config". Tricky bit is that, with ActivePerl, you can set up things so that perl -V:make reports either 'nmake' or 'dmake' (it depends upon which, if any, flavour gets found - and you can alter that to suit yourself). However, it's imperative that you use whichever make it is that perl -V:make reports.

      Cheers,
      Rob
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