[Bioperl-l] error during installation

[Fields, Christopher J]

On Jun 16, 2012, at 5:15 PM, Peng Du wrote:

> Thank you for all your replies.
> 
> So,what do you suggest me do if I want to do alignment with external tools like clustawl or dpalign? In the current distribution of BioPerl, ext package is still required to do this, I am afraid.

No, you should only need bioperl-run to run clustalw, and bioperl core modules to parse it.  If you have anything from those packages that is failing from a lack of bioperl-ext we need to know about it (preferably with code examples and errors encountered).

chris

> Thank you. 
> 
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> 
> On 2012/06/17, at 2:43, "Fields, Christopher J" <cjfields at illinois.edu> wrote:
> 
>> On Jun 16, 2012, at 3:50 AM, Leon Timmermans wrote:
>> 
>>> On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 5:28 AM, Du, Peng <du at ibio.jp> wrote:
>>>> Hi everybody,
>>>> 
>>>> I am a newbie, I encountered a problem while installing bioperl-ext.
>>>> The error message is :
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> /usr/bin/ld: libs/libsw.a(aln.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against
>>>> `.rodata.str1.8' can not be used when making a shared object;
>>>> recompile with -fPIC
>>>> libs/libsw.a: could not read symbols: Bad value
>>>> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>>>> 
>>>> I googled some solutions, but all of them are confusing, could you
>>>> tell me where exactly should I add the -fPIC? In the makefile under
>>>> the bioperl-ext-1.4 directory?  I tried to add this to the CCCDLFLAGS,
>>>> CCDLFLAGS, LDDLFLAGS and LDFLAGS in that file. But it still doesn't
>>>> work.
>>>> f
>>>> Could you tell me what to do or where could I find the answer?
>>>> 
>>>> Thank you very much.
>>>> 
>>>> Best Regards,
>>>> Peng
>>> 
>>> You should not install it in the first place. BioPerl-ext has been
>>> partly merged into the main Bioperl distribution, and partly spun off
>>> into its own dists (Bio::Tools::HMM, not released yet AFAIK). You
>>> should just install the former, or help release the latter.
>>> 
>>> Leon
>> 
>> 
>> For all intents and purposes I would consider all parts (past and present) of bioperl-ext deprecated, unless we can find someone willing to take them on.  And, with that in mind, frankly I would be much more amenable to supporting XS (or similar) interfaces to common bioinformatics libraries (Bio::DB::Sam as an example) than ones specifically designed with bioperl in mind.  The latter (bioperl-ext) have significantly bit-rotted to the point I'm not sure whether they would be worth keeping around.
>> 
>> chris