Re: [help-GIFT] GIFT installation (new to GIFT)

[Howard Lee]

Dear Dr. Mueller,

        Sorry I was away for the past few weeks. I had followed your
advise, and varified the Parse::Yapp package is installed in the default
directoy (/usr/bin) and I also reinstall the XML::XQL package and had
varified the XML::XQL package is working. However while running the GIFT
configure command (in root) , it still reports the XML::XQL module is
missing. The
error message states as follows:

XML::XQL is missing.
        Perl gives us the following error message:
        XML/XQL/Parser.pm did not return a true value at
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.1/i386-linux-thread-multi/XML/XQL.pm line
969.
    BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.1/i386-linux-thread-multi/XML/XQL.pm line
969.
    Compilation failed in require at (eval 55) line 1.
    BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 55) line 1.;

================

        To examing this error, I opened up the XQL.pm file and the line
969 states:
                use XML::XQL::Parser;

        I had also checked that Parser directory exists under XQL. => just
wondering: what is the condition to for the above statement to return a
true value? Maybe I am missing something here??

        Thank you very much in advance for your advise.

Sincerely,
Howard

PS. things I have tried so far hoping to resolve the GIFT installation
problem on my machine:

logged in as root:

        reinstalling Parse::Yapp
        reinstalling XML::XQL module
        adding /usr/lib to the PATH
        installing gift-prerequisites-0.09 package
        ocnfiguring gift-0.1.9 (problem occurred)



On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Wolfgang [iso-8859-1] M?ller wrote:

> On Friday 09 January 2004 07:12, Howard Lee wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> >     I am just wondering if any one can help me with the problem I
> > encountered while installing GIFT program:
>
> OK. I looked into this, and the problem is that the makefile of XML::XQL
> expects yapp (the command line tool belonging to Parse::Yapp) to reside in
> /usr/bin or something. So if you do install-in-home.sh, the fact that a fresh
> Parse::Yapp is installed in ~/perl/ does not help you much :-/ . Apparently
> everybody else testing the gift-prerequisites package had a yapp installed,
> so far.
>
> The way to workaround this, is to install the Parse::Yapp into the default
> location and then reinstall the rest.
>
> For fixing the makefile, I am looking into this, but if you are faster,
> David/Howard/Henning, then I won't complain and gladly apply the patch.
>
> Cheers,
> Wolfgang
>