From: gmarzot AT baynetworks DOT com (Joe Marzot) Subject: Re: getting Perl5 to compile under gnu-win32 2 Nov 1996 15:32:03 -0800 Sender: daemon AT cygnus DOT com Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: References: Original-To: Joe Marzot Original-Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com In-Reply-To: Joe Marzot's message of 01 Nov 1996 11:14:49 -0500 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.2.2/Emacs 19.31 Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Well, I started some work on this with b16 on a NT4.0 system and here is what I found so far. after getting perl5.003_07.tar.gz unpacked I saw that hints/aux.sh could not be created. I am guessing this has something to do with NT as I could not create a file with this name from the NT command prompt. The MANIFEST file had to be tweaked to get around that one but aux.sh is non-essential here so no-matter. The ./Configure script had some trouble unpacking as well, as there is both ./configure and ./Configure. Both gnu-win32 tar and winzip95.exe had trouble with the upper/lower case name collision. However if you un tar it explicitly some place else and then cp it, they both can exist in the same dir. These two files did still throw bash's name completion for a loop though - it would not complete on either one. then I had to make sure awk and find were around in places that ../Configure were looking for it. then I discovered what appears to be a problem with bash's 'read' command. essentially bash$ read ans leaves a (no ) in $ans. this caused all queries from ./Configure to go haywire. I tried fiddling with the value of IFS to see if this would get read to leave the out but no luck. Sorry if this is a known problem but I thought it would help to report it. also got a number of messages when trying to rm -rf. One other question: Why did the dir structure change to the less familiar (to me) /cygnus/H-i386-cygwin32...as opposed to /usr /usr/local etc.? -GSM -- Giovanni S. Marzot Senior Software Engineer Bay Networks Inc. Network Management Development -- - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".