Mail::ClamAV [was: Re: SAVI-Perl/Sophos on RedHat Enterprise 4]

[Pete Russell]

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Thank you for that thouhgtful response.

[root at car-mbus-sw2 ~]# clamav-config --cflags
-I/usr/local/include -g -O2


David Lee wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Pete Russell wrote:
>
>> Mine still fails at make on RHEL4
>>
>> Checking if your kit is complete...
>> Looks good
>> Writing Makefile for Mail::ClamAV
>> /usr/bin/perl -Mblib -MInline=NOISY,_INSTALL_ -MMail::ClamAV -e1 0.16
>> blib/arch
>> Can't open blib/lib/Mail/ClamAV.pm: No such file or directory.
>> Can't locate Mail/ClamAV.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
>> /root/.cpan/build/Mail-ClamAV-0.16/blib/arch
>> /root/.cpan/build/Mail-ClamAV-0.16/blib/lib
>> /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5
>> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi
>> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4/i386-linux-thread-multi
>> [...]
>
>
> Whereas the earlier parts of this thread were about Mail::ClamAV failing
> the "make test" stage (i.e. relatively late), this problem is way before
> it gets that far.
>
> Some of what follows might be obvious, but I'm including it "just in
> case".
>
> The Mail::ClamAV module is simply a thin wrapper onto your existing
> "clamav" software.  The build procedure for this module probably cannot
> find your installation of it.
>
> Quick test:  Do something like "clamav-config --cflags" which, on a
> working system, would echo back the "CFLAGS" necessary for things that
> want to interface with the clamav software.  It's my guess that on your
> system you'll get "Command not found" or similar.
>
> Find out where the clamav software is located on your particular system.
>
> Set the PATH to include that location's bin directory.
>
> Verify that "clamav-config --cflags" now does work, returning typical
> CFLAGS-like things.
>
> Now, with that PATH set up, re-try the build.  This should work (although
> may later fail at the "make test" stage) as discussed previously on this
> thread.
>
> To see the gory details, cd to its build directory (if from CPAN, probably
> something like ".cpan/build/Mail-ClamAV-0.16").  Do "make clean", to get a
> clean start, then "perl Makefile.PL" then "make".  Et cetera.
>
> (If you peek inside "Makefile.PL", you'll see stuff relating to the
> "clamav-config --cflags" discussed above.)
>
>
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