Re: [gtk-list] Re: installing Gtk-Perl - what's the secret..

[Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds kjahds com>]

On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Paolo Molaro wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 08:05:30PM +0100, R.K.Aa wrote:
> > Compiled gimp 1.1.11 and got error:
> > In file included from Lib.xs:21:
> > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux/PDL/Core/pdlcore.h:4:
> > ppport.h: No such file or directory
> 
> This has nothing to do with gtk-perl.
> put the ppport.h file where the compiler can find it
> (in the include path).
> 
> ppport.h is available following these instructions:
> /* For the latest version of this code, please retreive the Devel::PPPort
>    module from CPAN, contact the author at <kjahds@kjahds.com>, or check
>    with the Perl maintainers. */

Probably PDL shouldn't be installing a header that relies on ppport.h.
(Part of the idea of ppport.h is that installing it is probably a bad
idea. I'll admit that installing it into the ARCH_SPEC perl directory
isn't quite as bad an idea.)

-- 
Kenneth Albanowski (kjahds@kjahds.com, CIS: 70705,126)