Installing Marpa::R2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.1 (Maipo)

[phi...@free.fr]

Hello,

I am having trouble installing Marpa::R2 on Red Hat 7.1. Here are some of the warning messages I get in CPAN:

l /usr/lib64/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 .) at /root/.cpan/build/Config-AutoConf-0.311-2MOxbU/blib/lib/Config/AutoConf.pm line 20.
# BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /root/.cpan/build/Config-AutoConf-0.311-2MOxbU/blib/lib/Config/AutoConf.pm line 20.
# Compilation failed in require at t/00.load.t line 7.
# BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at t/00.load.t line 7.
FAILED--Further testing stopped: Can't load Config::AutoConf
make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 255
  REHSACK/Config-AutoConf-0.311.tar.gz
one dependency not OK (Capture::Tiny); additionally test harness failed
  /usr/bin/make test -- NOT OK
//hint// to see the cpan-testers results for installing this module, try:
  reports REHSACK/Config-AutoConf-0.311.tar.gz
Running make install
  make test had returned bad status, won't install without force
Running make for J/JK/JKEGL/Marpa-R2-3.000000.tar.gz
Warning: Prerequisite 'PPI => 1.206' for 'JKEGL/Marpa-R2-3.000000.tar.gz' failed when processing 'MITHALDU/PPI-1.220.tar.gz' with 'make_test => NO 7 dependencies missing (File::Remove,Params::Util,Clone,Test::Object,Test::SubCalls,Class::Inspector,Task::Weaken); additionally test harness failed'. Continuing, but chances to succeed are limited.
Warning: Prerequisite 'Time::Piece => 1.12' for 'JKEGL/Marpa-R2-3.000000.tar.gz' already built but the result looks suspicious. Skipping another build attempt, to prevent looping endlessly.
Warning: Prerequisite 'Config::AutoConf => 0.22' for 'JKEGL/Marpa-R2-3.000000.tar.gz' failed when processing 'REHSACK/Config-AutoConf-0.311.tar.gz' with 'make_test => NO one dependency not OK (Capture::Tiny); additionally test harness failed'. Continuing, but chances to succeed are limited.

  CPAN.pm: Building J/JK/JKEGL/Marpa-R2-3.000000.tar.gz

Can't locate Time/Piece.pm in @INC (@INC contains: inc /usr/local/share/perl5 /root/perl5/lib/perl5/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /root/perl5/lib/perl5 /usr/local/lib64/perl5 /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib64/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 .) at inc/Marpa/R2/Build_Me.pm line 32.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at inc/Marpa/R2/Build_Me.pm line 32.
Compilation failed in require at Build.PL line 29.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at Build.PL line 29.
Warning: No success on command[/usr/bin/perl Build.PL ]
  JKEGL/Marpa-R2-3.000000.tar.gz
  /usr/bin/perl Build.PL  -- NOT OK
Running Build test
  Make had some problems, won't test
Running Build install
  Make had some problems, won't install
Could not read metadata file. Falling back to other methods to determine prerequisites
Failed during this command:
 LEONT/ExtUtils-InstallPaths-0.011.tar.gz     : make_test NO one dependency not OK (ExtUtils::Config); additionally test harness failed
 LEONT/Module-Build-Tiny-0.039.tar.gz         : writemakefile NO '/usr/bin/perl Build.PL ' returned status 512
 ETHER/Hook-LexWrap-0.25.tar.gz               : make_test NO one dependency not OK (Module::Build::Tiny)
 ADAMK/Test-SubCalls-1.09.tar.gz              : make_test NO one dependency not OK (Hook::LexWrap); additionally test harness failed
 MITHALDU/PPI-1.220.tar.gz                    : make_test NO 7 dependencies missing (File::Remove,Params::Util,Clone,Test::Object,Test::SubCalls,Class::Inspector,Task::Weaken); additionally test harness failed
 REHSACK/Config-AutoConf-0.311.tar.gz         : make_test NO one dependency not OK (Capture::Tiny); additionally test harness failed
 JKEGL/Marpa-R2-3.000000.tar.gz               : writemakefile NO '/usr/bin/perl Build.PL ' returned status 512

Here's my CPAN version

/usr/bin/cpan script version 1.5701, CPAN.pm version 1.9800

Any help would be much appreciated.

Philippe

[Ruslan Shvedov]

Which version of perl are you using?

Looks like Red Hat 7.1 by default has no perl version >= 5.10 [1], which is required to build Marpa::R2. 

An issue has been filed to check for minimum perl version [2].

[1] Red Hat 7.1 (not RHEL, but back before Fedora and RHEL when it was all just Red Hat Linux) from 2001 had 5.6.0 in the ISOs.
-- http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=879818

[2] https://github.com/jeffreykegler/Marpa--R2/issues/257

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[phi...@free.fr]

Hi,

This is perl 5, version 16, subversion 3 (v5.16.3) built for x86_64-linux-thread-multi
(with 28 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)

[Ruslan Shvedov]

Hi,

On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 11:06 AM, <phi...@free.fr> wrote:

Hi,

This is perl 5, version 16, subversion 3 (v5.16.3) built for x86_64-linux-thread-multi
(with 28 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)

hmm, according to cpantesters [1] Marpa::R2 3.00 passes with 5.16.3 under linux.

Perhaps try cpanm or change cpan config to auto-install pre-reqs per this answer -- http://stackoverflow.com/a/14067234/4007818?

[1] http://fast-matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Marpa-R2%203.000000;perl=5.16.3;reports=1

[phi...@free.fr]

Unfortunately, cpanm is not installed on Red Hat 7.1, and "yum info cpanm" results in a "not found" message.

My CPAN prerequisite policy is already equal to [follow].

Philippe

[Ruslan Shvedov]

Well, in such cases I usually try installing dependencies individually, perhaps starting with Capture::Tiny, which blocks Config::AutoConf and Module::Build::Tiny, which, among others, block PPI.

Also, cpan strangely falls back to Config::Autoconf, while on linux it should rather use configure. Stupid question as it is, but do you have recent autotools installed?

[Ruslan Shvedov]

Also, you can go on marpa irc channel -- #marpa on irc.freenode.net -- perhaps there is somebody more experienced in the platform.

[Ruslan Shvedov]

On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 11:26 AM, <phi...@free.fr> wrote:

Unfortunately, cpanm is not installed on Red Hat 7.1, and "yum info cpanm" results in a "not found" message.

FWIW, there is more than one way to install cpanm, e.g. cpan App::cpanminus and others -- http://search.cpan.org/~miyagawa/App-cpanminus-1.7039/lib/App/cpanminus.pm

Ruslan 

[phi...@free.fr]

autotools is not installed on this machine.

Because this a production server, I don't want to install tools like autotools and mess with the PERL installation.

Thanks for your help anyway.