From: R DOT J DOT Rainthorpe AT greenwich DOT ac DOT uk (Robert Rainthorpe) Subject: RE: Perl 5.003_90 Configure recursion using beta 17.1 3 Mar 1997 05:33:10 -0800 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <01BC27AB.EB1516D0.cygnus.gnu-win32@ratbag.gre.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Original-To: "'syring AT pollux DOT edv DOT agrar DOT tu-muenchen DOT de'" , "'gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com'" Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Many thanks to all who provided answers. In particular this one, which worked. Less thanks to those who didn't read the whole of my message. Incidentally, the -m option isn't strictly a no-op, since when you run mount it does display the mount as "mixed". Does this means that the functionality will return in the future? Yours, Rob. -----Original Message----- From: Karl Martin Syring [SMTP:syring AT pollux DOT edv DOT agrar DOT tu-muenchen DOT de] Sent: Saturday, March 01, 1997 7:00 AM To: 'Robert Rainthorpe'; 'gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com' Subject: RE: Perl 5.003_90 Configure recursion using beta 17.1 You got the wrong configure (notice small "c"). Try to extract Configure from the tar file (this is the bigger one). Regards Karl -----Original Message----- From: Robert Rainthorpe [SMTP:R DOT J DOT Rainthorpe AT greenwich DOT ac DOT uk] Sent: Freitag, 28. Februar 1997 18:02 To: 'gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com' Subject: Perl 5.003_90 Configure recursion using beta 17.1 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 [] [snip] ....... - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".