After much effort I have decided its better just to go ahead and ask for help from the wise monks. To give you an idea of my xp level.. have gone through "learning perl" and am pretty comfortable with it that book, but system modules and things of this nature are still a little confusing to me. I am trying to install and use a program called "circos" which lets you depict data on circle plots, on Mac OsX v10.7. During the install I came across a list of errors because I was missing certain modules.... here is this list :
rabadan14:bin zwc2101$ ./test.modules
ok Carp
fail Config::General is not usable (it or a sub-module is missing)
ok Data::Dumper
ok Digest::MD5
ok File::Basename
ok File::Spec::Functions
ok FindBin
fail GD is not usable (it or a sub-module is missing)
fail GD::Polyline is not usable (it or a sub-module is missing)
ok Getopt::Long
fail Graphics::ColorObject is not usable (it or a sub-module is missin
+g)
ok IO::File
ok List::MoreUtils
ok List::Util
fail Math::Bezier is not usable (it or a sub-module is missing)
ok Math::BigFloat
fail Math::Round is not usable (it or a sub-module is missing)
fail Math::VecStat is not usable (it or a sub-module is missing)
ok Memoize
ok POSIX
fail Params::Validate is not usable (it or a sub-module is missing)
ok Pod::Usage
fail Readonly is not usable (it or a sub-module is missing)
ok Regexp::Common
fail Set::IntSpan is not usable (it or a sub-module is missing)
ok Storable
ok Time::HiRes
So seing I lacked these modules I followed a tutorial online about cpan and installing new modules like so :
cpan[3]> install Graphics::ColorObject
Upon attempting this I received the following error:
Warning: Prerequisite 'IPC::Run3 => 0.034' for 'ADAMK/Test-Script-1.07
+.tar.gz' failed when processing 'RJBS/IPC-Run3-0.044.tar.gz' with 'ma
+ke => NO'. Continuing, but chances to succeed are limited.
Can't exec "make": No such file or directory at /System/Library/Perl/5
+.12/CPAN/Distribution.pm line 2026.
ADAMK/Test-Script-1.07.tar.gz
make -- NOT OK
Running make test
Can't test without successful make
Running make install
Make had returned bad status, install seems impossible
This told me that perhaps not having this thing called "make" was this issue, so then I looked up how to install this and received several directions. First was to just install Xcode... although I have Xcode installed, and even tried reinstalling it to no avail. So second I downloaded make from GNU and tried to follow their install read me but upon doing so was made aware that install was not possible due to:
rabadan14:make-3.82 zwc2101$ ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... config/install-sh -c -d
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... no
checking for nawk... no
checking for awk... awk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... no
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cl.exe... no
configure: error: in `/Users/zwc2101/Downloads/make-3.82':
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
See `config.log' for more details.
Before I go any farther I would really benefit from some clarification, I'm sure this is an asinine problem but we all have to start somewhere. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Keep in mind I am not sure that make is actually the problem here that is just my best guess! Thanks
UPDATE
I have found this thread :
"Oh boy, this is producing awful lot of pain. I did type
~ > which make
/usr/bin/make
~ > which gcc
/usr/bin/gcc
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and I used
sudo rm -rf /Users/larus/.cpan/build/
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and I tried
sudo perl -MCPAN -e 'install Bundle::CPAN'
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But all I got was errors. After all this hassle I found this
http://www.mail-archive.com/macosx@perl.org/msg10184.html
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and tried installing manually. After all, I don't know if this procedure installs all the dependencies. Any glue? Thanks to all who gave a share of their mighty wisdom. Why this have to be so hard? We are programmers, we should make programs that flow like a river stream, eih?"
And have also tried doing everything suggested in it, including checking my o conf file in CPAN to see if make had a file path... here is what the o conf looks like :
cpan[1]> o conf
$CPAN::Config options from '/Users/zwc2101/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm':
commit [Commit changes to disk]
defaults [Reload defaults from disk]
help [Short help about 'o conf' usage]
init [Interactive setting of all options]
applypatch []
auto_commit [0]
build_cache [100]
build_dir [/Users/zwc2101/.cpan/build]
build_dir_reuse [0]
build_requires_install_policy [yes]
bzip2 [/usr/bin/bzip2]
cache_metadata [1]
check_sigs [0]
colorize_debug undef
colorize_output [0]
colorize_print undef
colorize_warn undef
commandnumber_in_prompt [1]
commands_quote undef
connect_to_internet_ok [1]
cpan_home [/Users/zwc2101/.cpan]
curl [/usr/bin/curl]
dontload_hash undef
dontload_list undef
ftp [/usr/bin/ftp]
ftp_passive [1]
ftp_proxy []
ftpstats_period undef
ftpstats_size undef
getcwd [cwd]
gpg []
gzip [/usr/bin/gzip]
halt_on_failure [0]
histfile [/Users/zwc2101/.cpan/histfile]
histsize [100]
http_proxy []
inactivity_timeout [0]
index_expire [1]
inhibit_startup_message [0]
keep_source_where [/Users/zwc2101/.cpan/sources]
load_module_verbosity [none]
lynx []
make [/usr/bin/make]
make_arg []
make_install_arg []
make_install_make_command []
makepl_arg []
mbuild_arg []
mbuild_install_arg []
mbuild_install_build_command [./Build]
mbuildpl_arg []
ncftp []
ncftpget []
no_proxy []
pager [/usr/bin/less]
password undef
patch [/usr/bin/patch]
patches_dir undef
perl5lib_verbosity [none]
prefer_installer [MB]
prefs_dir [/Users/zwc2101/.cpan/prefs]
prerequisites_policy [follow]
proxy_pass undef
proxy_user undef
randomize_urllist undef
scan_cache [atstart]
shell [/bin/bash]
show_unparsable_versions [0]
show_upload_date [0]
show_zero_versions [0]
tar [/usr/bin/tar]
tar_verbosity [none]
term_is_latin [1]
term_ornaments [1]
test_report [0]
trust_test_report_history [0]
unzip [/usr/bin/unzip]
urllist
0 [ftp://mirrors.24-7-solutions.net/pub/CPAN/]
1 [ftp://cpan.erlbaum.net/CPAN/]
2 [ftp://cpan-du.viaverio.com/pub/CPAN/]
3 [ftp://mirror.team-cymru.org/CPAN/]
4 [ftp://mirror.atlantic.net/pub/CPAN/]
use_sqlite [0]
username undef
version_timeout [15]
wait_list undef
wget []
yaml_load_code [0]
yaml_module [YAML]
Thoughts??
