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Re: Perl 5.003_90 Configure recursion using beta 17.1
- To: R dot J dot Rainthorpe at greenwich dot ac dot uk
- Subject: Re: Perl 5.003_90 Configure recursion using beta 17.1
- From: cerney at nbserv2 dot dseg dot ti dot com (John Cerney)
- Date: Fri, 28 Feb 97 15:25:39 CST
- Cc: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
I had the same problem installing Perl 5.003_25.
I believe the problem was related to a bug in the cygnus tar. The Perl
distribution has a Configure and a configure script in it (i.e. the names
differ only in the upper/lower case 'C'). When the Perl distribution is
un-tar'ed using cygnus tar, the Configure script is concatenated to the
end of the configure script. When you run sh Configure, strange things happen.
I got around this by manually deleting the part of configure that was at the
begining of the un-tar'ed Configure script.
-John Cerney
>
> I'm having difficulty getting perl to install:
>
> I'm starting with a clean installation of GNU-WIN32 as per the FAQ
>
> I'm then following the instructions given by K.M.Syring, as updated
> yesterday. (http://www.edv.agrar.tu-muenchen.de/~syring/gnu-win32/index.html)
>
> I'm assuming that instruction 1. should refer to /srcdir, rather than
> srcdir (I have tried both).
>
> When I get to instruction 3 - "sh Configure", the script appears to
> run recursively. On screen I get:
>
> bash$ sh Configure
> sh Configure -ds -e
> sh Configure -ds -e -ds -e
> sh Configure -ds -e -ds -e -ds -e
> sh Configure -ds -e -ds -e -ds -e -ds -e
> ........
>
> So I press Ctrl-C and if I'm lucky it quits.
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