Dealing with the PDL install bug

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

Hi, I was wondering if anyone knows the fix for the PDL install bug

 No rule to make target `/home/zentara/perlmodules/PDL-2.4.3/Basic/Gen
+/pm_to_blib', needed by `Bad.pm'.  Stop.
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I'm using Perl5.8.8 and PDL-2.4.3 I've seen this is reported in the cpan tester reports, but I havn't been able to find a patch. Thanks.

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Re^2: “PDL – Scientific Programming in Perl” book online in HTML format by syphilis (Archbishop) on Dec 07, 2006 at 15:02 UTC
No rule to make target `/home/zentara/perlmodules/PDL-2.4.3/Basic/Gen +/pm_to_blib', needed by `Bad.pm'. Stop. [download] The only 2.4.3 failures I see on CPAN testers arise because: `cp pptemplate ../../blib/script/pptemplate cp: pptemplate: No such file or directory` [download] I think that issue has been addressed in the CVS version available from Sourceforge. For CVS access, see http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=612. What OS are you running ? And which 'make' utility ? Oooops ... I see you've already filed a bug report that answers those questions :-) This may be an hitherto unknown problem - a post to the PDL-Porters mailing list might provide an answer if you don't get one here (but first try the latest CVS version, if that's possible). I've built PDL-2.4.3 without any problem on Mandrake Linux (osvers=2.4.21-0.13.mdk), (unthreaded) perl-5.8.8. I guess it's some problem with Basic/Bad/Makefile.PL ( ... or is that just stating the obvious ? :-) If you do post to the porters list, also include that section of the output of 'perl Makefile.PL' that shows the badvalues options that have been selected. Cheers, Rob	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: “PDL – Scientific Programming in Perl” book online in HTML format by lin0 (Curate) on Dec 07, 2006 at 18:30 UTC
Hi Zentara It works for me! I am using Perl 5.8.7 and PDL 2.4.3 on Kubuntu 6.06. What I can suggest is the following: Subscribe to the PDL Mailing lists. In particular, you might want to send your bug report to the pdl-porters team. In the mean time, you could disable the support for BAD values by modifying the following line in the /home/zentara/perlmodules/PDL-2.4.3/perldl.conf file Line 73: From: WITH_BADVAL => 1 To: WITH_BADVAL => 0 Please, let me know if you can get it to compile without the BAD values support Cheers, lin0	[reply]