X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/928984d04e60838944d4f0e956404cb6c75f9d1c..60188d728080c3e558b647d7595ea376944f51d0:/doc/install/discussion.mdwn diff --git a/doc/install/discussion.mdwn b/doc/install/discussion.mdwn index 88830398f..b27cc4bac 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'. @@ -28,3 +44,315 @@ How do I fix this? There may be a bit of old ikiwiki left behind because I did once have an older version installed but I thought I had removed all traces of it. +> I'm quite sure that you still have some of it floating around, since +> ikiwiki seems to be loading an old IkiWiki.pm. +> +> 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/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? + +[..] 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 + +> So, perl on your system is segfaulting when running ikiwiki. What version +> of perl is this, and what version of what distribution? --[[Joey]] + + $ 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? -- [[users/Jon]] + +> 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! -- [[users/Jon]] + +--- + +##Further problems with Bundle::IkiWiki +I'm also having trouble with finding Bundle::IkiWiki. I've tried it with the environment settings and without them, and also using the interactive +form of the cpan command. I've also gone to cpan.org and searched -- eg + + http://search.cpan.org/search?query=ikiwiki&mode=all + +and no Bundle for IkiWiki comes up at all. + +The error I get from the various cpan attempts is basically always the same: + + Warning: Cannot install Bundle::IkiWiki, don't know what it is. + Try the command + + i /Bundle::IkiWiki/ + + to find objects with matching identifiers. + +When I try that command, BTW, it basically seems to find the same stuff I get when searching on the cpan web site. + +This happens both on Ubuntu 8.04 and CentOS 5.1 + +Any help would be greatly appreciated... --kent + +> Bundle::IkiWiki is included in ikiwiki itself, so of course cpan.org +> does not know about it. +> +> If you can show me exactly what command you ran (the tested, working +> commands on the parent page?) and how it failed, I can try to debug +> your problem. + +Just today I noticed the "Bundle" subdirectory. What a moron I am! :-) Also, I misunderstood the PERL5LIB=`pwd` part -- +I glibly thought it indicated the sink for the installation of the modules, rather than the source, and I was running +the cpan command from another window in a different directory, and just spiraled down into error... + +> The real question in my mind is why you'd want to do this at all when +> using Ubuntu, which incldues packages of ikiwiki and all its +> dependencies. --[[Joey]] + +For ubuntu 8.04: + + $ ikiwiki --version + ikiwiki version 2.32.3ubuntu2.1 + $ + +I was just trying to get the latest version. + +In any case, thanks for the help, and thanks for the superb software. I really like it a lot. + +--- + +## Prerequisite modules not found for non-root user +Hi, I'm a non-root user trying to use IkiWiki on an academic webserver with Perl 5.8.8 but several missing modules, so I grab them from CPAN (edited): + + cd ~; PERL5LIB=`pwd`/ikiwiki:`pwd`/ikiwiki/cpan:`pwd`/lib/perl5 PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 perl -MCPAN -e 'CPAN::Shell->install("Bundle::IkiWiki")' + +That puts a lot of files in ~/.cpan. Then when I go into the directory where I untarred IkiWiki and try to run the Perl makefile: + + cd ~/ikiwiki; perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=$HOME/ikiwiki + +I get warnings that all the modules needed were not found: + +Warning: prerequisite CGI::FormBuilder not found. +Warning: prerequisite CGI::Session 0 not found. +Warning: prerequisite Date::Parse 0 not found. +Warning: prerequisite HTML::Scrubber 0 not found. +Warning: prerequisite HTML::Template 0 not found. +Warning: prerequisite Mail::Sendmail 0 not found. +Warning: prerequisite Text::Markdown 0 not found. + +CORRECTION 1: I played around with CPAN and got the installation to the point of succeeding with >99% of tests in "make test". + +> What was the magic CPAN rune that worked for you? --[[Joey]] + +An attempt of "make install" failed while trying to put files in /etc/IkiWiki but per the output's instructions, I reran "make install" and that seemed to work, until this error, which doesn't seem to be satisfiable: + + Warning: You do not have permissions to install into /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/ExtUtils/Install.pm line 114. + Installing /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/IkiWiki.pm + mkdir /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/IkiWiki: Permission denied at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/ExtUtils/Install.pm line 176 + +Any suggestions? Whew! + +> When you build ikiwiki, try doing it like this to make it +> install to your home directory. Then you can run `~/bin/ikiwiki` +> --[[Joey]] + + perl Makefile.PL INSTALL_BASE=$HOME PREFIX= + make + make install + +--- + +03 September 2010, Report on successful manual install in Debian 5 (Lenny) AMD64: + +note: Maybe much more easy using backports, but using this tools you get a plain user cpan :) + +This where my steps: + +As root (#): + + aptitude install build-essential curl perl + + +As plain user ($), I use to install user perl modules using local::lib + + mkdir -p "$HOME/downloads" + cd "$HOME/downloads/" + wget http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/G/GE/GETTY/local-lib-1.006007.tar.gz + wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/i/ikiwiki/ikiwiki_3.20100831.tar.gz + tar -zxf local-lib-1.006007.tar.gz + cd local-lib-1.006007/ + perl Makefile.PL --bootstrap=~/.perl5 + make test && make install + echo 'eval $(perl -I$HOME/.perl5/lib/perl5 -Mlocal::lib=$HOME/.perl5)' >>~/.bashrc + . ~/.bashrc + curl -L http://cpanmin.us | perl - App::cpanminus + cpanm CGI::FormBuilder + cpanm CGI::Session + cpanm HTML::Parser + cpanm HTML::Template + cpanm HTML::Scrubber + cpanm Text::Markdown + cpanm URI + cd .. + tar -zxf ikiwiki_3.20100831.tar.gz + cd ikiwiki/ + perl Makefile.PL INSTALL_BASE= PREFIX=/home/$USER/.perl5 + make test # All tests successful. + make install INSTALL_BASE=/home/$USER/.perl5 + . ~/.bashrc + +Using cpan or cpanm with local::lib, you can install any other dependency, as plain user (in your home). XS modules may need -dev packages. + +After all, here it's: + + ikiwiki -version + ikiwiki version 3.20100831 + +It seems like this installation looses the /etc files (we're as plain user), but this can be used as a workaround: + + ikiwiki -setup ~/downloads/ikiwiki/auto.setup + +I've not investigated more the /etc files ussage, but does not seems like a good idea to be as plain user... + + /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist does not exist + ** Failed to add you to the system wikilist file. + ** (Probably ikiwiki-update-wikilist is not SUID root.) + ** Your wiki will not be automatically updated when ikiwiki is upgraded. + + +Iñigo + +----- + + +Portability fixes encountered while maintaining the pkgsrc package: + +* In `IkiWiki::Setup::Standard::gendump()`, generate a shebang + matching the current `perl`. +* In `Makefile.PL`, provide overridable defaults for `SYSCONFDIR` + and `MANDIR`. +* In `Makefile.PL`, use `perl` to bump `ikiwiki.spec` instead of + `sed -i`. +* In `Makefile.PL`, specify more portable options to `cp`. + +I've attempted to mergeably patch these in my git, commit +5c177c96ac98b24aaa0613ca241fb113f1b32c55. + +--[[schmonz]] + +----- + +[[!template id=gitbranch branch=schmonz/portability author="[[schmonz]]"]] + +My git was in a screwy state so I started over. These changes are +now on a branch. --[[schmonz]]