Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Johnson, Andrew N. via Tech-talk" <[email protected]> · Sat, 22 Dec 2018 14:21:03 +0000

Sorry for the delay, I’ve been traveling (and my wife says I’m on holiday and shouldn’t be working anyway)...

> On Dec 21, 2018, at 9:29 AM, Mark Rivers via Tech-talk <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I verified my suspicion.  I deleted the base-7.0.2/html directory and did "make clean" on the Pilatus architecture.
> 
> I then got the perl errors:
> gse-pilatus1 epics-devel/base-7.0.2> make -sj4
> Can't locate Pod/Simple/HTML.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl .) at ../../../src/tools/podToHtml.pl line 15.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ../../../src/tools/podToHtml.pl line 15.

Apparently Perl 5.8.8 didn’t come with the Pod::Simple::HTML module which I use to convert POD (Plain Old Documentation) into HTML files in the EPICS INSTALL_HTML directory, it first appeared in Perl 5.10 (which was released in December 2007). In an earlier response Matt Newville gave explicit instructions on how to install the module, which should work. Mark’s solution of first building for a different host architecture which has that Perl module is your best workaround if you can’t install it using cpan or some equivalent such as the OpenSUSE package management system.

- Andrew

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System