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

On 28/10/2012 13:40, Steven Haun wrote:
> It appears to be installed:
>
> root@raspberrypi:/home/pi# sudo apt-get install gcc
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> gcc is already the newest version.
> gcc set to manually installed.
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> root@raspberrypi:/home/pi
What does perl -V output?

Martin
>
> On Oct 28, 2012, at 8:36 AM, "Martin J. Evans" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> 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