[Bioperl-l] Problems installing GD

[Lincoln Stein]

Sadly this error is coming from your C compiler and/or its includes, 
and is not really related to GD. This is a very low level error and 
implies that you must:

	1) reinstall GCC
	2) reinstall libc
or
	3) reinstall glibc

Not very attractive, I'm afraid, and any of these procedures has a 
chance of royally screwing up your system.

Lincoln

On Friday 05 November 2004 11:44 am, Barry Moore wrote:
> I'm posting this to bioperl because GD is a dependency, and because
> I know that a lot of folks here use it.  Hope that's not too much
> of a stretch.
>
> I'm trying to install the perl GD 2.16 library and make is failing.
>  I have tried all of the suggestions in Linclon's README (except I
> haven't reinstalled perl).  This does not appear to be a problem
> with libgd version (I get the same error trying to install GD-1.19
> which doens't depend on external libraries) or dynamic linking. 
> The error I get is about a syntax error in syntax error in
> /usr/include/stdlib.h.  I've successfully installed GD on other
> systems - linux and windows - often with difficulty and I haven't
> seen this particular type of error before.  I've googled various
> parts of the error message and searched and read perlmonks,
> comp.lang.perl.modules, the debian list etc.  No similar errors out
> there that I can find.
>
> I'm installing on an Intel box running Debian GNU/Linux 2.4 and
> Perl 5.6.1.  I have installed the latest versions of the following
> C library dependencies:
>
> zlib-1.2.1
> libpng version 1.2.7
> libgd version 2.0.33
> jpeg-6b
> freetype version 1.3.1
>
> My system doesn't have rpm.  I tried apt-get install GD, but it
> couldn't find GD (I probably need to set up apt-get).  I tried CPAN
> shell and manual installation from source.  The last two attempts
> give me the same error.  I installed all the above dependencies in
> the order listed manually and and they all installed fine with no
> errors and those that had tests past them.  I su to root, move to
> the GD-2.16 directory and run perl Makefile.PL.  I then run make
> and get the error:
>
> In file included from /usr/lib/perl/5.6.1/CORE/perl.h:493,
>                  from GD.xs:5:
> /usr/include/stdlib.h:158: syntax error before `long'
> make: *** [GD.o] Error 1
>
> I tried installing GD-1.19 just to get something going, but I get
> the same error.
>
> The comlete output from the perl Makefile.PL and make commands are
> listed below.  Any suggestions?  Thanks.
>
>
> Barry
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>-------------------------------------------
>
> bmoore at westwater:~/GD-2.16$ su root
> Password:
> westwater:/home/bmoore/GD-2.16# perl Makefile.PL
> NOTICE: This module requires libgd 2.0.12 or higher.
>         it will NOT work with earlier versions.
>         See www.cpan.org for versions of GD that are compatible
>         with earlier versions of libgd.
>
>         If you are using Math::Trig 1.01 or lower, it has a bug
> that causes a "prerequisite not found" warning to be issued.  You
> may safely ignore this warning.
>
>         Type perl Makefile.PL -h for command-line option summary
>
> Configuring for libgd version 2.0.33.
> Included Features:          GD_XPM GD_PNG GD_GIF
> GD library used from:       /usr/local
>
> If you experience compile problems, please check the @INC, @LIBPATH
> and @LIBS
> arrays defined in Makefile.PL and manually adjust, if necessary.
>
> Checking if your kit is complete...
> Looks good
> Writing Makefile for GD
> westwater:/home/bmoore/GD-2.16# make
> cp qd.pl blib/lib/qd.pl
> cp GD.pm blib/lib/GD.pm
> AutoSplitting blib/lib/GD.pm (blib/lib/auto/GD)
> cp GD/Polyline.pm blib/lib/GD/Polyline.pm
> /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/ExtUtils/xsubpp  -typemap
> /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/ExtUtils/typemap -typemap typemap  GD.xs >
> GD.xsc && mv GD.xsc GD.c
> cc -c  -I/usr/local/include -DDEBIAN -fno-strict-aliasing
> -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -O2
> -DVERSION=\"2.16\" -DXS_VERSION=\"2.16\" -fPIC
> "-I/usr/lib/perl/5.6.1/CORE"  -DHAVE_XPM -DHAVE_GIF GD.c
> In file included from /usr/lib/perl/5.6.1/CORE/perl.h:493,
>                  from GD.xs:5:
> /usr/include/stdlib.h:158: syntax error before `long'
> make: *** [GD.o] Error 1
> westwater:/home/bmoore/GD-2.16#

-- 
Lincoln D. Stein
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