[Bioperl-l] Failure to compile the CVS snapshot of bioperl-exton AMD64

[Chris Fields]

They're not absolutely necessary; the tests are skipped w/o failure because
bioperl-ext is optional.  These are only necessary if you want the ability
to read sequence trace files.  

BTW, you might have a rough time on trying to install bioperl-ext depending
on your platform.  Note the following bug report:

http://bugzilla.open-bio.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2074

Christopher Fields
Postdoctoral Researcher - Switzer Lab
Dept. of Biochemistry
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: bioperl-l-bounces at lists.open-bio.org [mailto:bioperl-l-
> bounces at lists.open-bio.org] On Behalf Of Florin Iucha
> Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 7:15 AM
> To: bioperl-l at lists.open-bio.org
> Subject: Re: [Bioperl-l] Failure to compile the CVS snapshot of bioperl-
> exton AMD64
> 
> On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 11:52:47AM +0100, Sendu Bala wrote:
> > Florin Iucha wrote:
> > > I am trying to install bioperl-network from CVS.  I found this to
> > > require bioperl from CVS, which requires bioperl-ext from CVS.
> >
> > I can't help with the compile problems you encountered (other than to
> > say I also have problems under AMD64), but from where did you get the
> > idea that bioperl (live/core) requires bioperl-ext? It doesn't, though
> > recent changes to Makefile.PL may give that impression...
> 
> Running the tests for bioperl-live mention in some places that 'this
> test has been skipped since $foo is not available' and I found the
> 'foos' in bioperl-ext.
> 
> florin
> 
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