X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/ikiwiki.git/blobdiff_plain/9acb8151ccb8fa1ef7a769a2bb941066053cc736..7b28deb171455a207e536b8abebbca67242a4588:/doc/install/discussion.mdwn

diff --git a/doc/install/discussion.mdwn b/doc/install/discussion.mdwn
index 64d57cf21..2b88f6e66 100644
--- a/doc/install/discussion.mdwn
+++ b/doc/install/discussion.mdwn
@@ -1,3 +1,19 @@
+No matter what I do, ikiwiki gives me a `Can't locate loadable object for module Locale::gettext in @INC` although I've installed (and reinstalled) the Locale module, and no luck. If I look at the directories in the INC path, I can see the file. The wiki won't compile in spite of this, and I've tried everything I can think of.. -- [[tychoish]]
+
+> Sounds like the `Locale::gettext` perl module is there, but your perl
+> installation is broken so that the accompnying so file is not there, or
+> doesn't work. On my system I have 
+> `/usr/lib/perl5/Locale/gettext.pm` and
+> `/usr/lib/perl5/auto/Locale/gettext.so` -- suspect your problem is with
+> the second one.
+> 
+> If you can't fix it, this problem could probably be worked around by
+> unsetting all environment variables when running ikiwiki (`LANG`,
+> `LC_ALL`, `LC_MESSAGES`). Then it won't try to load `Locale::gettext` at
+> all. --[[Joey]]
+
+---
+
 I am trying to install Ikiwiki version 2.1 from the source tarball.
 
 It has all gone fairly smoothly until I try and run 'make'.
@@ -94,7 +110,7 @@ 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!
+in Perl) and documented them in [[tips/Dreamhost]].  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?
@@ -138,20 +154,27 @@ good. Date::Parse was already installed. --[[vibrog]]
     rendering todo/calendar_--_archive_browsing_via_a_calendar_frontend.mdwn
     make: *** [extra_build] Segmentation fault
 
-Repeating `make` ends with this:
+> So, perl on your system is segfaulting when running ikiwiki. What version
+> of perl is this, and what version of what distribution? --[[Joey]]
 
-    ..
-    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.
+    $ perl -V
+    Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 8) configuration:
+    osname=linux, osvers=2.6.22, archname=i586-linux-thread-multi
+    uname='linux ravel 2.6.22 #1 smp 20070921 22:29:00 utc i686 i686 i386 gnulinux '
+    config_args='-ds -e -Dprefix=/usr -Dvendorprefix=/usr -Dinstallusrbinperl -Dusethreads -Di_db -Di_dbm -Di_ndbm -Di_gdbm -Duseshrplib=true -Doptimize=-O2 -march=i586 -mtune=i686 -fmessage-length=0 -Wall -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector -g -Wall -pipe'
+    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
+    usethreads=define use5005threads=undef useithreads=define usemultiplicity=define
+    useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
+    use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
+    usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
+
+Not sure how to provide proper version information for you.--[[vibrog]]
+
+---
+
+I've tried a couple of times and my cpan has never recognised Bundle::IkiWiki. Is that section of the page still accurate? -- [[JonDowland]]
+
+> Are you running perl with the environemnt settings specified on the page?
+> Can you show how it fails to find the bundle? --[[Joey]]
+
+>> I was not. Next time I build I will have to try that (I'll need to tweak it as I already override PERL5LIB; also I need to specify http proxies). Thanks for your help! -- [[JonDowland]]