[Bioperl-l] Error when running Build.PL

Fields, Christopher J cjfields at illinois.edu
Fri Mar 1 23:11:39 UTC 2013


On Mar 1, 2013, at 3:49 PM, Leon Timmermans <l.m.timmermans at students.uu.nl>
 wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 5:50 PM, Phil Dagosto <PDagosto at edgebio.com> wrote:
>> Greetings,
>> 
>> I downloaded BioPerl 1.6.1 from this location: http://www.bioperl.org/wiki/Getting_BioPerl
>> 
>> When I ran Build.PL with all of the default settings chosen in the interactive mode I got the following error message:
>> ….
> 
>> I have no idea whether this is a problem or not or if I can proceed. Also, I'm confused by the version number referenced in the last line. 1.006001 is our current version - I thought I was installing version 1.6.1. Are these version numbers equivalent, i.e., are the zeros not meaningful?.
> 
> Yeah, 1.6.1 equals 1.006001. See also
> http://www.dagolden.com/index.php/369/version-numbers-should-be-boring/.
> Do note that it is no longer the lastest release, latest is 1.6.901
> and a new release is expected on a short notice.
> 
> Leon

Yup, hoping to work on it tonight and tomorrow.  Travis-CI indicates all normal tests are passing, I'll run through a few remaining ones.  Some we can't address directly; there are a number of warnings popping up I can't do anything about (they originate from Graph).

chris



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