macOS best "make" to use..and one CPAN issue.

[Bentov]

I love OS X, but today was one of those days where I actually think that windows would have been easier; but anyway I digress.

I'm trying to install some perl modules from CPAN, but it seems that I don't have make installed...or I just can't find it. Which is the best one to use, I know there are multiple ports of it.

Also, I'm getting the following error as well when trying to DBD:g

Could not read '/Users/eal/.cpan/build/DBD-Pg-2.15.1-hCJYAh/META.yml'. Falling back to other methods to determine prerequisites
TURNSTEP/DBD-Pg-2.15.1.tar.gz

I can see the directory and file fine through the shell and finder, so why can't CPAN?

Thanks for any assistance.

Bentov.

 

[Cromulent]

Install Xcode for all the development tools such as "make".

 

[Bentov]

Thanks for the help, I now have make. One step closer to getting this to work. I'm getting an error

Could not make: Unknown Error

I'm glad it is so helpful

 

[Cromulent]

Thanks for the help, I now have make. One step closer to getting this to work. I'm getting an error

Could not make: Unknown Error

I'm glad it is so helpful

What is the text you see before the error? Often problems with make are actually shown a number of lines before it displays an error message.

 

[Bentov]

Well...I think I might be getting closer...sort of.


**There are line above this, but it seems to compile ok with just two warnings and no errors*

Running Mkbootstrap for DBD::Pg ()
chmod 644 Pg.bs
rm -f blib/arch/auto/DBD/Pg/Pg.bundle
LD_RUN_PATH="/library/postgresql/8.3/lib" env MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.3 cc  -bundle -undefined dynamic_lookup -Wl,-search_paths_first -arch ppc -arch i386 -Wl,-syslibroot,/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk -mmacosx-version-min=10.4 Pg.o dbdimp.o quote.o types.o  -o blib/arch/auto/DBD/Pg/Pg.bundle 	\
	   -L/library/postgresql/8.3/lib -lpq -lm  	\
	  
env: cc: No such file or directory
make: *** [blib/arch/auto/DBD/Pg/Pg.bundle] Error 127
  TURNSTEP/DBD-Pg-2.15.1.tar.gz
  /usr/bin/make -- NOT OK
Running make test
  Can't test without successful make
Running make install
  Make had returned bad status, install seems impossible
Failed during this command:
 TURNSTEP/DBD-Pg-2.15.1.tar.gz                : make NO

It looks like it is deleting what it needs(look at the 3rd line above). I wasn't getting that error before. So Error 127 it is. If I run it again, then I get the unknown error

cpan[2]> install DBD:Pg                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
Running install for module 'DBD::Pg'
Running make for T/TU/TURNSTEP/DBD-Pg-2.15.1.tar.gz
  Has already been unwrapped into directory /Users/eal/.cpan/build/DBD-Pg-2.15.1-jI8tar
Could not make: Unknown error
Running make test
  Can't test without successful make
Running make install
  Make had returned bad status, install seems impossible

I did notice that DBD:g is not in the repository in ActiveState for 5.10, so I have been trying to use CPAN instead. I'm thinking that is my problem. Also, I have not modified anything in this package.

Bentov

 

[trule]

this is your problem-

env: cc: No such file or directory


probably your path is not set correctly so make cannot find cc (c compiler, usually called gcc). Open a terminal and try the following:

trule@iMac [~]$cc
i686-apple-darwin9-gcc-4.0.1: no input files
trule@iMac [~]$which cc
/usr/bin/cc
trule@iMac [~]$

And from there google will have the answer, now that you know the question.

 

[Bentov]

I saw that, but didn't make the connection since earlier it called for gcc and I found that in the same place that 'make' was. I guess I didn't think that something would need both gcc and cc. I'm guessing from your output that your cc is a link to gcc that sits in /developer/usr/bin?

 

[Guiyon]

Have you downloaded and installed the latest Developer Tools DVD? If you have and things link 'gcc' aren't properly linked into your /usr/bin directory you should probably uninstall it, download a fresh copy and reinstall it.