Re: [Guest via RT] [cpan #6094] All tests fail

Hi, Jason.  Thanks for your replies.  I'm still fighting with the
XML::Xerces install.  Details below.

   From: [email protected] (Jason E. Stewart)
   Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 10:26:18 +0530

   <[email protected]> writes:

   > No, it's Debian.

   Ah! Then it should be simple. I do all my development on debian, and I
   run Xerces on a bunch of different debian systems.

   What release are you using, stable, testing, or unstable?

I am using mostly stable, with a few packages from testing.

   > I used apt-get to download and install the libxerces-related packages
   > from Debian's testing distribution of libxerces 2.3.0-1.1
   > (libxerces23, libxerces23-dev, libxerces23-doc).  The specific package
   > names are:
   >
   >   libxerces23_2.3.0-1.1_i386.deb
   >   libxerces23-dev_2.3.0-1.1_i386.deb
   >   libxerces23-doc_2.3.0-1.1_all.deb
   >
   > The link error I reported occured with these binaries.

   Huh, did you use libxml-xerces-perl package from debian?

This is what I originally tried (and posted about).  I installed
libxerces23, libxerces-dev, and libxerces23-doc (from testing) using
dpkg/apt-get.

I did *not* use apt-get to install libxml-xerces-perl, because it
would have required me to upgrade the system's perl-base and
perl-modules packages, which I definitely do not want to do.

But since I *do* have a newer version of perl (5.8.3) installed under
/opt, my idea was to install XML::Xerces "manually" (bypassing dpkg)
relative to the perl-5.8.3 under /opt instead of the system's
stable-release perl (5.6.1).

I downloaded and unpacked libxml-xerces-perl_2.3.0-4.orig.tar.gz from
packages.debian.org.  (Unfortunately, as far as I can tell this
package doesn't seem to have any Debian-specific documentation or
configuration files; it looks exactly like the XML::Xerces tarball one
would download from CPAN.)  I set XERCES_INCLUDE and XERCES_LIB to
/usr/include and /usr/lib, respectively, and ran

   $ /opt/bin/perl-5.8.3 Makefile.PL PREFIX=/opt
   $ make
   (everything OK so far)
   $ make test

Here's where I get the errors:

Can't load '/home/jones/.cpan/build/XML-Xerces-2.3.0-4/blib/arch/auto/XML/Xerces/Xerces.so' for module XML::Xerces: /home/jones/.cpan/build/XML-Xerces-2.3.0-4/blib/arch/auto/XML/Xerces/Xerces.so: undefined symbol: _Q211xercesc_2_316XMLPlatformUtils.fgMemoryManager at /opt/lib/perl5/5.8.3/i686-linux/DynaLoader.pm line 229.

I get this:

  $ nm blib/arch/auto/XML/Xerces/Xerces.so|grep PlatformUtils.fgTransService
             U _Q211xercesc_2_316XMLPlatformUtils.fgTransService

How about yours?


I don't know if this is significant, but according to grep,
XMLPlatformUtils.fgTransService is mentioned in
/usr/lib/libxerces-c.so.1.5.2 but not in /usr/lib/libxerces-c.so.23.0.

Is there some special flag I could add to this command

LD_RUN_PATH="/lib:/usr/lib" cc  -shared -L/usr/local/lib Xerces.o  -o blib/arch/auto/XML/Xerces/Xerces.so blib/arch/auto/Handler/Handler.a  -lpthread -L/usr/lib -lxerces-c   

so that a definition for XMLPlatformUtils.fgTransService is
incorporated in Xerces.so?

Thanks!

kynn