From: fabio AT joplin DOT colorado DOT edu (Fabio Somenzi) Subject: Re: getting Perl5 to compile under gnu-win32 2 Nov 1996 22:53:35 -0800 Sender: daemon AT cygnus DOT com Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199611030619.XAA00701.cygnus.gnu-win32@joplin.colorado.edu> Original-To: gmarzot AT baynetworks DOT com Original-Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com ->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. I just found a similar problem with a package that has both Makefile and makefile. gnu-win32 tar concatenates the two files. As for bash, I found that if I did cp Makefile makefile I would only get makefile and that file would be empty. As in the case of Perl's Configure, this was not a blocking problem (I still had my tar file), but, in my ignorance, I don't understand why this happens. Another thing I found: gcc's option -fpic caused linking to report unresolved references. Maybe this is a trivial omission of some linking flag. However, under Linux, the package builds without problems with -fpic. Eventually the program was built correctly, but it does not run correctly because of the well-known problems with floating point. Specifically, it produces a PostScript file in which a coordinate is NaN. I compiled without any optimization. BTW, the program in question is called "dot", is from ATT (free of charge for non-commercial use), and is a graph layout program. ->also got a number of messages when trying to rm -rf. This is reportedly solved in b17 if I remember correctly. In the meanwhile, the fix is to do a chmod +w for all files before invoking rm -rf. Fabio -- Fabio Somenzi | Phone: 303-492-3466 University of Colorado | Fax: 303-492-2758 ECE Dept. | Email: Fabio AT Colorado DOT EDU Boulder CO 80309-0425 | WWW: http://vlsi.colorado.edu/~fabio - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".