as far as I can see, the load paths are "clean".
The option only copies the installation files, not into /, but creates all sub-directories under the specified directory. It is a usual option used during RPM/BFF package creation to temporarily stage files in some directory and then pack them into a package.
Original Message:
Sent: Wed March 26, 2025 05:41 AM
From: José Pina Coelho
Subject: Install Perl Term::ReadKey AIX
Hi Andrey,
Will that leave a clean load path on the binaries, or do we risk including /tmp/myperlmod in the load path?
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José Pina Coelho
IT Specialist at Kyndryl
Original Message:
Sent: Tue March 25, 2025 03:39 PM
From: Andrey Klyachkin
Subject: Install Perl Term::ReadKey AIX
I assume that, yes, it will still require the compiler. If it has some C code, it always has it.
On other side, you can compile it on one server with the compiler and install it into some temporary directory like:
make install DESTDIR=/tmp/myperlmod
Then, copy the directory's contents to / of your target servers.
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Andrey Klyachkin
https://www.power-devops.com
Original Message:
Sent: Tue March 25, 2025 02:44 PM
From: Joshua Krause
Subject: Install Perl Term::ReadKey AIX
I was able to get it installed by downloading it, but I did have to install XL C/C++ compiler. If I can get the cpan url whitelisted on my side and install that way, would it still require the compiler?
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Joshua Krause
Original Message:
Sent: Tue March 25, 2025 09:12 AM
From: Andrey Klyachkin
Subject: Install Perl Term::ReadKey AIX
Joshua,
the usual way of installing would be open CPAN and install it like
/usr/opt/perl5/bin/cpan Term::ReadKey
But the requirement is to have an Internet connection.
You can download the package from CPAN archive - https://metacpan.org/pod/Term::ReadKey, copy it to your AIX system and use the same command to install it:
/usr/opt/perl5/bin/cpan TermReadKey-2.38.tar.gz
On my test system it produced "Memory fault" in both cases. I didn't look in detail what was the reason.
The third way is a manual way. Unpack the downloaded archive, switch into the directory, prepare the Makefile and install the module:
/usr/opt/perl5/bin/perl Makefile.PLmake install
It looks like the module requires IBM "Classic" XL C/C++ 16.1 compiler to be installed.
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Andrey Klyachkin
https://www.power-devops.com
Original Message:
Sent: Mon March 24, 2025 02:20 PM
From: Joshua Krause
Subject: Install Perl Term::ReadKey AIX
I am trying to find the best way to install Perl Term:ReadKey on our AIX servers. Our Oracle DBAs are looking to use a new script, from Oracle I believe, and they are getting an error:
Can't locate Term/ReadKey.pm in @INC (you may need to install the Term::ReadKey module) (@INC contains: /oracle/product/19c/rdbms/admin /usr/opt/perl5/lib/site_perl/5.28.1/aix-thread-multi /usr/opt/perl5/lib/site_perl/5.28.1 /usr/opt/perl5/lib/5.28.1/aix-thread-multi /usr/opt/perl5/lib/5.28.1 /usr/opt/perl5/lib/site_perl/5.20.1 /usr/opt/perl5/lib/site_perl) at /oracle/product/19c/rdbms/admin/catcdb.pl line 37.
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Joshua Krause
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