Changeset 6958 for trunk/greenorg/macros/english.dm

Timestamp:

2004-03-08T13:25:40+13:00 (20 years ago)

Author:

nzdl

Message:

added in an faq entry for expat perl XML::Parser errors

File:

• trunk/greenorg/macros/english.dm (modified) (2 diffs)

trunk/greenorg/macros/english.dm

@@ -853 +853 @@
 
 _tfaqbuild11title_ {I've added a new type of classification to my collection. How do I create and add the navigation bar images?}
+
+_tfaqbuildexpattitle_ {How do I fix XML::Parser errors during import.pl?}
 
 _headingplugins_ {More About Plugins}
@@ -1274 +1276 @@
 }
 
+_tfaqbuildexpatbody_ {
+Our prebuilt Linux and Mac OS X Greenstone distributions are built on machines using Perl 5.6, and these distributions contain a few binary perl modules. These cause problems if you are using a recent version of perl like 5.8 or 5.8.1 (you can type "perl -v" from the command line to see the version).
+<p>
+On the Mac, our distribution contains modules for both perl 5.6 and 5.8 and the correct one should (hopefully) be installed.
+<p>
+A typical error message during import.pl would be:
+<p>
+Uncaught exception from user code: Can't load '/home/httpd/gsdl/perllib/cpan/auto/XML/Parser/Expat/Expat.so' for module XML::Parser::Expat: /home/httpd/gsdl/perllib/cpan/auto/XML/Parser/Expat/Expat.so: undefined symbol: PL_sv_undef at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/DynaLoader.pm line 229. at /home/httpd/gsdl/perllib/cpan/XML/Parser.pm line 14 
+<p>
+To remedy this, you need to remove the "gsdl/perllib/cpan/XML" and "gsdl/perllib/cpan/auto" directories. Then you need to install the perl XML::Parser natively for your system, and get Greenstone to use this instead.
+<p>
+On redhat or mandrake, install the .rpm named "perl-XML-Parser", on debian, install the "libxml-parser-perl" package. For other Linuxes, use your distribution's package, or you can get it from <a href="http://search.cpan.org/~msergeant/XML-Parser-2.34/">http://search.cpan.org/~msergeant/XML-Parser-2.34/</a>.
+<p>
+You may also need to get Expat, available from <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/expat/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/expat/</a>.
+
+}
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