perl nightmare

[u235sentinel]

I wondered about that.  Do a     rpm -qa | grep gd-devel    and    rpm 
-qa | grep libgd

If nothing comes up then you found the problem.  As far as scrolling 
problems go, I would recommend changing the default scroll history from 
500 (think that's it) to around 1000 or 2000.  Then you can go up 
further and see where the problems are.  Usually it's under profiles or 
preferences.  All depends on what console/term you are running.  Not 
sure if there is a log written.  If there is I would check in the 
working directory for anything with a .log or _log (log something at least).

Check first if you have the binaries loaded.



Tobias Speckbacher wrote:

>Directly from the GD README file.
>
>===> NOTE: This version of GD REQUIRES libgd 2.0.12 or higher.  If you
>===> have an older version of libgd installed you must remove libgd.a,
>===> libgd.so (if present) and gd.h.  Then install the new version of
>===> libgd from www.boutell.com (see below).  This particularly
>===> applies to users of Linux systems.  Older versions of GD are
>===> available at http://www.cpan.org.
>
>you will need to install the rpm for libgd and probably gd-devel.
>
>-Tobias
>
> -----Original Message-----
>From: 	redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com]  On Behalf Of James D. Parra
>Sent:	Friday, June 04, 2004 5:22 PM
>To:	'u235sentinel at comcast.net'
>Cc:	Redhat-List (E-mail)
>Subject:	RE: perl nightmare
>
>Hello,
>
>Thank you for your response.
>
>Unfortunately, I can't get the top list of errors since they scroll off the
>screen. If I use the ""Shift-Pageup" combo I get somewhere closer to the
>top, but not the top.
>
><snip>
>GD.xs:1269: `polyptr' undeclared (first use in this function)
>GD.xs:1269: parse error before "Perl_safesysmalloc"
>GD.c: In function `XS_GD__Image_filledPolygon':
>GD.c:2010: parse error before "image"
>GD.c:2016: `image' undeclared (first use in this function)
>GD.c:2016: called object is not a function
>GD.xs:1309: `gdPointPtr' undeclared (first use in this function)
>GD.xs:1309: parse error before "polyptr"
><snip>
>
>There are pages of these errors. Is there a log generated that has captured
>all these errors?
>
>Thank you again,
>
>James 
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: u235sentinel [mailto:u235sentinel at comcast.net]
>Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 9:32 AM
>To: redhat-list at redhat.com
>Subject: RE: perl nightmare
>
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>>What is the *best* method to load perl modules?
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>>I am trying to load the GD module from CPAN with;
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>>perl -MCPAN -e shell
>>cpan> install GD
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>This "should" work however I use a similar method which has worked for 
>me.  Keep in mind that I've been studying Perl for about 8 months (and 
>yes.. writing code for work ::grinz::)
>
>Here is one such installation I performed recently.
>
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> perl -MCPAN -e 'install HTML::TreeBuilder' 
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>I'm wondering if you have the GD Library installed on the system.  This 
>module interfaces with the library.  Just a guess.
>
>You mentioned this is the bottom of the errors.  Can you send me the 
>entire list of errors generated?  I've found that dependancies could be 
>announced in the middle of all the error reporting.  Usually stating 
>another module that is missing.
>
>Finally,  you might want to consider joining the perl beginners mail 
>list.  This is something that would be better answered there.  Believe 
>me, they are awesome!
>
>http://lists.cpan.org/showlist.cgi?name=beginners
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