X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/ikiwiki.git/blobdiff_plain/4a45368f8a083188290dcb78eebd16960c47a216..516908cc8e90743fc8616ed8421170b3da46ffd4:/doc/install/discussion.mdwn?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/doc/install/discussion.mdwn b/doc/install/discussion.mdwn index 4cda70efa..64d57cf21 100644 --- a/doc/install/discussion.mdwn +++ b/doc/install/discussion.mdwn @@ -34,3 +34,124 @@ traces of it. > I don't understand though why it's not finding ./IkiWiki.pm first. The > `-I` in the command line should make it look for files in the current > directory first. --[[Joey]] + +Well I have searched around and there really is nothing left that I can see. + +I have removed *everything* found by 'find' and 'locate' that contains 'ikiwiki' except the tar file +and started from the beginning again and I see exactly the same error. + +Is it that I maybe have a too old version of some of the Perl dependencies? The only mdwn.pm files +that I have are the two I have just extracted from the new tar file. There is *no* ./IkiWiki.pm file + +> It's interesting that you say you have no ./IkiWiki.pm file, since one is +> included in the tarball. What happened to it, I wonder? + +so what/where is it loading to satisfy the ....... aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!! + +I wasn't noticing the case of the filename, I'd missed the upper case W and guess what 'find' shows me:- + + /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/IkiWiki.pm + +Removing the above file has fixed my basic problem, now I'm getting lots of (non-fatal) errors +about "Can't locate Locale/gettext.pm", presumably that's a missing Perl module, I can probably +sort that out. + + +## Errors when running 'make test' + +OK, I've now got it to compile and install and presumably it's basically working. However there +are a few errors when I run 'make test'. Several errors have disappeared by installing more Perl +stuff (specifically XML::SAX) + +> XML::SAX is a requirement of XML::Simple, which is a documented build +> requirement. (Only really needed if you'll be using subversion actually). + +and one error disappeared when I did a 'make install', i.e. the 'make +test' has a test which requires IkiWiki to be installed first. + +> Yes, that bug is already fixed in subversion for the next release +> --[[Joey]] + +However I'm still getting the following error in 'make test':- + + t/pagename.................ok + t/pagespec_match...........ok 1/52Modification of a read-only value attempted at /home/chris/webdev/ikiwiki/blib/lib/IkiWiki.pm line 1023. + # Looks like you planned 52 tests but only ran 23. + # Looks like your test died just after 23. + t/pagespec_match...........dubious + Test returned status 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00) + DIED. FAILED tests 24-52 + Failed 29/52 tests, 44.23% okay + t/pagespec_merge...........ok + +> What version of perl are you using? It seems to have some problem with +> operator overloading. +> --[[Joey]] + +home$ perl -v + +This is perl, v5.8.8 built for i486-linux + +## Installation in a non-root enviroment +I had a pretty hellacious time installing Ikiwiki (largely due to problems +in Perl) and documented them in [[tips/SharedHosting]]. I'd like to get feedback on the doc and also know if I should file a few bugs to make the installation process a little friendlier to non-root folks. Thanks for the great app! + + +## Typing error? + +[..] Mail::Sendmail, TimeDate, RPC::XML, [..]: should be DateTime? --[[vibrog]] + +> No, TimeDate and DateTime are two different CPAN modules. Ikiwiki uses +> TimeDate. --[[Joey]] + +ah, i still don't fully get it, though (the following is slightly shortened): + + $ perl -MCPAN -e shell + cpan> install DateTime + DateTime is up to date. + cpan> install TimeDate + Warning: Cannot install TimeDate, don't know what it is. + Try the command + i /TimeDate/ + to find objects with matching identifiers. + +I'm trying to build IkiWiki on a fresh OpenSuse 10.3 box. I start out with + + $ perl -MCPAN -e 'install Text::Markdown URI HTML::Parser HTML::Template HTML::Scrubber' + $ git clone git://git.ikiwiki.info/ ikiwiki && cd ikiwiki + $ perl Makefile.PL && make + +Are there other prerequisites? +I also installed all optional Perl modules, except TimeDate. + +> TimeDate is also, confusingly, known as Date::Parse. Perhaps CPAN would +> do better with that name. --[[Joey]] + +good. Date::Parse was already installed. --[[vibrog]] + +`make` exits with `make: *** [extra_build] Aborted`, `make test` complains `cannot stat 'ikiwiki.man'` --[[vibrog]] + +> If you show me the actual error message, and not just the last line make +> outputs, I might be able to help. --[[Joey]] + + .. + rendering todo/calendar_--_archive_browsing_via_a_calendar_frontend.mdwn + make: *** [extra_build] Segmentation fault + +Repeating `make` ends with this: + + .. + scanning logo.mdwn + docwiki.setup: html/logo.html independently created, not overwriting with version from logo + BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 6) line 21. + make: *** [extra_build] Error 255 + +`make test` says + + t/basewiki_brokenlinks.....ok 1/0install: cannot stat `ikiwiki.man': No such file or directory + make[1]: *** [extra_install] Error 1 + # Failed test at t/basewiki_brokenlinks.t line 8. + t/basewiki_brokenlinks.....ok 4/0# Looks like you failed 1 test of 7. + t/basewiki_brokenlinks.....dubious + .. + Failed 1/22 test scripts, 95.45% okay. 1/483 subtests failed, 99.79% okay.