From: cgf AT bbc DOT com (Chris Faylor) Subject: Re: Perl 5.004 2 Jun 1997 19:57:09 -0700 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: References: <199706020625 DOT AAA28453 AT boulder DOT Colorado DOT EDU> Reply-To: cgf AT bbc DOT com X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test57 (27 Apr 97) Original-To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com X-Mailer: Perl5 Mail::Internet v1.28 Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com In article <199706020625 DOT AAA28453 AT boulder DOT Colorado DOT EDU>, Fabio Somenzi wrote: >Here is my progress report on building Perl 5.004 on Win95. > >I applied the patch that Chris Faylor kindly sent me. (I had to apply >the patch on a machine running Linux, due to an apparent bug in >gnuwin32's patch. This bug has been reported to this list some time >ago. It has to do with an assertion violated at line 399 of patch.c.) > >I was able to build almost everything, except the Opcode extension, >for which I get a message saying that there are undefined references >to __imp_Perl_op_mask in Opcode.o. > >I removed Opcode from the list of extensions to build, and finally got >make to finish. That's strange. I spent a lot of time getting Opcode to compile. I'll have to go back and check what I did wrong. >Testing reported: Failed 23 test scripts out of 152, 77.63% okay. > >Unfortunately, all tests involving dynamic libraries failed. Too bad, >because building my own extension is the main reason I'm trying to >build 004. These also were working correctly, on NT at least. >On the other hand, I did not run into Jim Pick's problem: I can run >the installed version of the perl I built. The installation complained >about many failed commands while installing the .3 man files, but >otherwise went well. I don't recall getting these errors. It looks like I'll have to do what I should have done and apply my patches over a clean perl5.004 source tree, then try to compile it. I'll try this on both NT and 95 and report back here, hopefully with something that works cleanly. In the meantime, I'd be happy to send my current set of patches to anyone who is interested. -- http://www.bbc.com/ cgf AT bbc DOT com "Strange how unreal VMS=>UNIX Solutions Boston Business Computing the real can be." - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".