Dear mailing list members;

I'm trying to build Demeter from source according to Bruce Ravel's guide
(https://bruceravel.github.io/demeter/documents/SinglePage/installation.html).  I have mostly been able to install the dependencies, but I had trouble with the libwxgtk packages, so I installed 3.1.0 according to these instructions: https://gist.github.com/abdulhalim-cu/f3ae4be0b45baabef5623ccdd20ca584. wx-config --version results in: 3.1.0, so I think it's installed correctly. libgif4 is no longer in the repository, so I installed libgif-dev and libgif7. WxPerl 0.9932 is installed. Iffeffit is installed, and gnuplot-x11 and pgplot5 are installed. I ran ./Build installdeps and it ran but eventually got stuck in a loop saying "please tell me where I can find your apache src", which I ignored. The script terminated with "/usr/bin/make install  -- OK" and then I installed apache2 anyways. Now, if I rerun it, it outputs "all prerequisites satisfied". I ran perl Build.PL, which seemed to complete successfully, and then finally ./Build and ./Build test, however ./Build test fails one test:

Test Summary Report-------------------

t/003_config.t (Wstat: 512 Tests: 22 Failed: 2)

Failed tests: 17, 22

Non-zero exit status: 2

Files=44, Tests=2671, 89 wallclock secs ( 0.34 usr 0.07 sys + 85.03 cusr 3.94 csys = 89.38 CPU)

Result: FAIL

Failed 1/44 test programs. 2/2671 subtests failed.

corresponding to:

#   Failed test 'configuration system introspection works: groups 38 artemis'
#   at t/003_config.t line 66.

#   Failed test 'introspection after reading new group: groups'
#   at t/003_config.t line 80.
# Looks like you failed 2 tests of 22.
t/003_config.t .......... Dubious, test returned 2 (wstat 512, 0x200)
Failed 2/22 subtests

line 80 in demeter/t/003_config.t is:

ok( ($#groups == $number_of_groups), 'introspection after reading new group: groups');

I'm not sure what's going wrong here. Does anyone know how to resolve this problem?

any help would be much appreciated,

Joseph