On 8/15/2012 8:32 AM, Martin J. Evans wrote:
On 15/08/12 15:12, Harry Jamieson wrote:
On 8/14/2012 6:13 AM, Tim Bunce wrote:
The =encoding directive is a standard part of perl pod
http://perldoc.perl.org/5.8.9/perlpod.html#Formatting-Codes
I don't know why it's causing a problem for you. It works for
most people with perl 5.8.8.
http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=DBI%201.622;reports=1;perl=5.8.8
The quick fix is to just delete the =encoding line.
Tim.
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 10:15:21PM -0400, Martin Gainty wrote:
Looks like a comment
http://fossies.org/dox/DBI-1.622/Gofer_8pm_source.html
what happens if you wrap the comment in a comment block?
/* =encoding ISO8859-1 */
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 13:44:29 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Error running "make" on AIX 5.3
I have been unable to install DBI on our AIX 5.3 using either CPAN
("out
of memory") or the "perl Makefile.PL" method. I've read the entire
thread started by Don Walters on this subject begun on 3 Aug 2012,
and
it looks like his problem boiled down to his cc_r being linked to
gcc.
Mine is linked to xlc, as it should be. My perl is 5.8.8. The
results
from my Makefile.PL run are in the attached file "makefile.tst".
They
look normal to me. The installation fails during "make", which dies
with the error "lib/DBD/Gofer.pm:841: Unknown command paragraph
"=encoding ISO8859-1""
Thank you both for your responses. I apologize for being a little
slow in getting back to you, but I only work Monday, Wednesday, and
Friday (I'm semi-retired). After writing my post to you, I tried
commenting the encoding line out by simply removing the "=" sign. The
"make" then ran fine but then I got a slew of errors from the "make
test". I then did some research and found that the encoding line
should read "=encoding ISO-8859-1", with a "-" after the "ISO",
according to
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/charset.html#h-5.2.1
I changed the line to that, but still got my "Unknown command
paragraph" error. If this line is unnecessary, then I'll comment it
out and ask you to help me to determine why I'm getting so many
errors. I *do* have xcl as my compiler, and cc_r is linked to it.
Thanks for all of your help so far.
Harry Jamieson
I thought you were using an old Perl and I don't think pod supported
=encoding since day 1. I could be wrong.
Martin
I'm using the 5.8.8 version of perl which comes with AIX 5.3. I have
commented the =encoding line out of Gofer.pm, this time with a C-like
"/* */", and am getting ready to run "make test" again to capture the
results.
Harry
