[NTLUG:Discuss] Perl Modules

[Eric Schnoebelen]

"Paul Drew" writes:
- Howdy Guys,
- I am going to have to appeal to you guys for some help. I have been trying 
- to figure out how to gather disk space usage using Perl. It appears that I 
- am in the need of a module Filesys::Df, and that requires Filesys::Statvfs.

- #perl -MCPAN -e 'install Filesys::Df' (This is what I ran to start it)
- 
- Checking if your kit is complete...
- Looks good
- Writing Makefile for Filesys::Statvfs
- cp Df.pm blib/lib/Filesys/Df.pm
- cp Statvfs.pm blib/lib/Filesys/Statvfs.pm
-         /usr/freeware/bin/perl -I/usr/freeware/lib/perl5/5.6.1/irix-n32 
- -I/usr/freeware/lib/perl5/5.6.1 
- /usr/freeware/lib/perl5/5.6.1/ExtUtils/xsubpp  -typemap 
- /usr/freeware/lib/perl5/5.6.1/ExtUtils/typemap -typemap typemap Statvfs.xs 
- > 
- Statvfs.xsc && mv Statvfs.xsc Statvfs.c
- Please specify prototyping behavior for Statvfs.xs (see perlxs manual)
-         cc -n32 -mips3 -IPA -c  -D_BSD_TYPES -D_BSD_TIME -woff 
- 1009,1110,1174,1184,1552 -OPT:Olimit=0:space=ON -I/usr/freeware/include 
- -I/usr/include -O3    -DVERSION=\"0.68\"  -DXS_VERSION=\"0.68\"  
- -I/usr/freeware/lib/perl5/5.6.1/irix-n32/CORE  Statvfs.c
- sh: cc:  not found
- *** Error code 127 (bu21)
-   /sbin/make  -- NOT OK
- Running make test
-   Can't test without successful make
- Running make install
-   make had returned bad status, install seems impossible

	According to the error message above, this module needs
to compile a C module to do what it needs, and is unable to find
a C compiler on your system.

	You might talk to your IRIX sysadmin, or to SGI about
getting a compiler for the system. (or seeing if gcc is in
/usr/freeware/bin, and making the needed tweaks for that to be
used.)

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