| Subject: | Alien-Gnuplot fails to configure on FreeBSD-11.0 |
In preparation for the release of perl-5.28.0 in May 2018, I have been testing a selected subset of CPAN distributions against monthly development releases in the perl-5.27.* series.
Today I attempted to install Alien-Gnuplot against perl-5.27.10 on FreeBSD-11.0 using 'cpanm' as my installer. After an initial failure which pointed toward the absence of the 'gnuplot' library on my system, I invoked:
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sudo pkg install gnuplot
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... and the library was installed in /usr/local/bin/gnuplot.
However, even that was not sufficient go enable Makefile.PL to complete successfully.
Please find attached (i) a summary of the 'cpanm' log output for this attempt; and (ii) the relevant output of 'perl -V'.
Please advise.
Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan
| Subject: | ZOWIE.Alien-Gnuplot-1.033.log.txt |
{
author => "ZOWIE",
dist => "Alien-Gnuplot",
distname => "Alien-Gnuplot-1.033",
distversion => 1.033,
grade => "NA",
prereqs => undef,
test_output => [
"Running Makefile.PL",
"",
"Alien::Gnuplot: the executable '/usr/local/bin/gnuplot' appears not to be gnuplot,",
"or perhaps there was a problem running it. You can remove it or set",
"your GNUPLOT_BINARY variable to an actual gnuplot.",
"",
"",
"Gnuplot seems to not exist on your system, and you set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT --",
"so I'll try to install it for you.",
"",
"Attempting to install/upgrade gnuplot on your system....",
"",
"",
"",
"Couldn't find gnuplot, and couldn't get it from the standard package managers.",
"I'd try to download the packages from sourceforge, but there are roadblocks that",
"make it hard to automate. ",
"",
"You can get gnuplot from the DOWNLOAD link here: \"http://gnuplot.info\". ",
"",
"-> N/A",
"-> FAIL Configure failed for Alien-Gnuplot-1.033. See /home/jkeenan/prep528/testing/perl-5.27.10/.cpanm/work/1522535582.24938/build.log for details.",
],
via => "App::cpanminus::reporter 0.17 (1.7043)",
}