Re: Error running "make" on AIX 5.3

On 8/15/2012 8:32 AM, Martin J. Evans wrote:
> On 15/08/12 15:12, Harry Jamieson wrote:
>> On 8/14/2012 6:13 AM, Tim Bunce wrote:
>>> The =encoding directive is a standard part of perl pod
>>> http://perldoc.perl.org/5.8.9/perlpod.html#Formatting-Codes
>>>
>>> I don't know why it's causing a problem for you. It works for
>>> most people with perl 5.8.8.
>>> http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=DBI%201.622;reports=1;perl=5.8.8
>>>
>>> The quick fix is to just delete the =encoding line.
>>>
>>> Tim.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 10:15:21PM -0400, Martin Gainty wrote:
>>>> Looks like a comment
>>>> http://fossies.org/dox/DBI-1.622/Gofer_8pm_source.html
>>>>
>>>> what happens if you wrap the comment in a comment block?
>>>> /* =encoding ISO8859-1 */
>>>>
>>>>> Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 13:44:29 -0600
>>>>> From: [email protected]
>>>>> To: [email protected]
>>>>> Subject: Error running "make" on AIX 5.3
>>>>>
>>>>> I have been unable to install DBI on our AIX 5.3 using either CPAN 
>>>>> ("out
>>>>> of memory") or the "perl Makefile.PL" method.  I've read the entire
>>>>> thread started by Don Walters on this subject begun on 3 Aug 2012, 
>>>>> and
>>>>> it looks like his problem boiled down to his cc_r being linked to 
>>>>> gcc.
>>>>> Mine is linked to xlc, as it should be.  My perl is 5.8.8.  The 
>>>>> results
>>>>> from my Makefile.PL run are in the attached file "makefile.tst".  
>>>>> They
>>>>> look normal to me.  The installation fails during "make", which dies
>>>>> with the error "lib/DBD/Gofer.pm:841: Unknown command paragraph
>>>>> "=encoding ISO8859-1""
>>>
>> Thank you both for your responses.  I apologize for being a little 
>> slow in getting back to you, but I only work Monday, Wednesday, and 
>> Friday (I'm semi-retired).  After writing my post to you, I tried 
>> commenting the encoding line out by simply removing the "=" sign. The 
>> "make" then ran fine but then I got a slew of errors from the "make 
>> test".  I then did some research and found that the encoding line 
>> should read "=encoding ISO-8859-1", with a "-" after the "ISO", 
>> according to
>>
>> http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/charset.html#h-5.2.1
>>
>> I changed the line to that, but still got my "Unknown command 
>> paragraph" error.  If this line is unnecessary, then I'll comment it 
>> out and ask you to help me to determine why I'm getting so many 
>> errors.  I *do* have xcl as my compiler, and cc_r is linked to it.
>>
>> Thanks for all of your help so far.
>>
>> Harry Jamieson
>>
>>
>
> I thought you were using an old Perl and I don't think pod supported 
> =encoding since day 1. I could be wrong.
>
> Martin
>
I'm using the 5.8.8 version of perl which comes with AIX 5.3.  I have 
commented the =encoding line out of Gofer.pm, this time with a C-like 
"/*   */", and am getting ready to run "make test" again to capture the 
results.

Harry