[Beowulf] Bioinformatics Benchmark System v3 rc1 ready

[Joe Landman]

Greg Matthews wrote:

>>On the Perl modules, could you let me know which ones were not in the
>>RHEL 3 AS on PPC?  I included a method to handle missing modules, though
>>I don't know what this particular version of RHEL requires.  
>>    
>>
>
>RHEL3 comes with very little in the way of perl modules. Getting it to
>do anything is a pain. You either have to provide them all yourself or
>insist on local admins using CPAN. I've had a whole lot of trouble
>getting my perl scripts to run nicely RHEL as well as other Linux boxes
>and solaris. Why dont we get Term::ReadKey, Net::LDAP, Net::SSLeay??
>  
>

Ok, I had an RHEL 3 WS box to play with, and it looks like the 
Object::Multiple was missing.  It is on SuSE of course.  If someone can 
give us temporary access to an AIX, HPUX, and others (OSX remote?) we 
should be able to have a "complete" set of missing modules.  I have an 
IRIX box in house, though I need to build a modern Perl for it (hint to 
SGI).  PAR should take care of this, and we will see if we can 
integrated this into v3.1.

Interestingly, it works nicely under Cygwin as well.  We will use PAR to 
try to generate a standalone binary for win32.


Joe

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