I tried running the hashfile executable and it seems ok -- give it a file name and it spits back a hash #; give it a non existant file name and it properly compains.

Thanks for the suggestion ... off to download a L&G gsdl and try reinstalling.

Greg W.

-----Original Message-----
From:John R. McPherson [mailto:jrm21@cs.waikato.ac.nz]
Sent:Tue 11/16/2004 9:18 PM
To:Gregory S. Williamson
Cc:greenstone-devel@list.scms.waikato.ac.nz
Subject:Re: [greenstone-devel] Greenstone Processing 1 out of761documents(was RE: Missing HTML documents)

On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 07:37:34PM -0800, Gregory S. Williamson wrote:

> I get an error for each text file in this form:
> HTMLPlug: processing annals$indian-conversion.html
> Use of uninitalized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/local/gsdl/perllib/doc.pm loine 246.
>
> Line 246 is a rather unremarkable:
> return "HASH$result";
>
> ending the subroutine _calc_OID
>
> I suspect this is why the build fails -- nothing is really imprted.

This sounds like an installation error - it is having trouble
running external programs. In this case, it seems that the program
(hashfile) is there, but running it doesn't return any useful
output. Check that $gsdl/bin/linux/hashfile exists, and is
executable, and doesn't give any error if you try to run it.

John McPherson