Re: Trying to get DBI to install on Raspberry Pi with Wheezy OS

On 28/10/2012 13:34, Steven Haun wrote:
> I am using 'sudo cpanm -i DBI' .  I found the details in the log (forgot to open it as sudo, so it looked blank). After the cp commands I found this (but don't know what 'gcc-4.7' is):
>
> /usr/bin/perl -p -e "s/~DRIVER~/Perl/g" ./Driver.xst > Perl.xsi
> /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/perl/5.14/ExtUtils/xsubpp  -typemap /usr/share/perl/5.14/ExtUtils/typemap -typemap typemap  Perl.xs > Perl.xsc && mv Perl.xsc Per$
> gcc-4.7 -c   -D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DDEBIAN -fstack-protector -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS$
> /bin/sh: 1: gcc-4.7: not found
> make: *** [Perl.o] Error 127
> -> FAIL Installing DBI failed. See /root/.cpanm/build.log for details.
gcc is a C compiler - you need it to compile the C code in DBI.

You need to install the gcc package. As your using debian it is probably 
something like

sudo apt-get install gcc

Martin

> On Oct 28, 2012, at 8:27 AM, "Martin J. Evans" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On 28/10/2012 13:18, Steven Haun wrote:
>>> I have tried cpan and cpanm installs and get very non description errors (other than failed).  Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks.
>> I installed DBI on a raspberry Pi ages ago. See bottom of http://www.martin-evans.me.uk/node/142 and http://www.martin-evans.me.uk/node/144
>>
>> I had some problems running out of memory  (from the above post):
>>
>> BTW, I tried to install Perl DBI (which does not have many dependencies) with cpanp and after 13 minutes it died with the signal 'Killed' - hmm. I've not investigated further yet - but I had plenty of disk space left on a 4gb card.
>> *UPDATE:* It appears I had some problems with my sd card - switched to another one and the machine seems faster but cpanp still bombs out as before - trying cpanminus.
>> *UPDATE2:* ilmari suggested cpanp might be a big memory user so I installed cpanm and managed to install DBI - although the test suite took over 60 minutes to run.
>>
>> Doesn't cpanm have a verbose mode.
>>
>> Martin