Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/02/09/20:16:47
linda w wrote:
> Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
>
>> What exactly is giving the error, and what error are you getting?
>
>
> I had an IsWinNT is undefined error message 2 days ago, but I removed some
> old-seeming directories (since I have 5.8.6 installed, I thought I'd
> try deleting older versioned directories, though I have no 5.8.6
> directories and most of the perl-lib files I had installed were under
> /lib/perl5/5.8.5 which seems odd -- I would have thought installing a
> newer perl would have installed lib files in 5.8.6...(?)
The naming scheme changed. D+LL name is cygperl_5.8.dll and directories
are named .../5.8/... The reason is that you can keep your modules when
5.8.7 is released, unless binary compatibility breaks.
> The error/build messages I am seeing now are:
[...]
> 3) Processing hints file hints/cygwin.pl
> Note (probably harmless): No library found for -lole32
> Note (probably harmless): No library found for -loleaut32
> Note (probably harmless): No library found for -luuid
> Note (probably harmless): No library found for -lmsvcrt40
> ### these are all libs I see in /usr/lib/w32api as "lib<libname>.a"
Then -L/usr/lib/w32api is missing in hints/cygwin.pl.
> 4) Warning: prerequisite Win32API::Registry 0 not found.
> Writing Makefile for Win32::TieRegistry
>
> 5) make[2]: Entering directory
> `//ishtar/share/CPAN/build-cygwin/GSAR001/libwin32-0.191/APIFile'
> Makefile:705: *** missing separator. Stop.
> make[2]: Leaving directory
> ### This appears to be a bug in the Makefile, line 704 has a target,
> ### but the build-line on line 705 isn't tab-indented, it's space indented
> ### which would seem to be a problem in the source that builds the Makefile
This is annoying, I get it occasionally, I believe it is a bug in
MakeMaker, but I couldn't find it yet. Does the build continue if you
add the missing tab and run make again?
Gerrit
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