From: pete AT horus DOT cix DOT co DOT uk (Pete Jordan) Subject: Re: Perl5.004_01 patch for b18 30 Jul 1997 09:56:22 -0700 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: Reply-To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Original-To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Original-CC: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com In-Reply-To: <199707291732.RAA25932@lennon.postino.com> X-Mail-Software: Ameol2 X-URL: http://www.horus.cix.co.uk/ Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Danny Aldham said: > I am trying to build perl5.004_01 with b18 gnuwin32 , and was > pointed to using a patch at www.tiac.net/users/cfg . I get a lot > of "Hunk #1 failed " type errors from patch -p1 -n < cygperl5.004_01.pat > and when I run sh Configure for perl, I get a lot of errors about > missing files & directories, and a warning that THIS PACKAGE SEEMS > TO BE INCOMPLETE . (their caps, not mine). Is there a patch for the > patch? Like I said in c.l.p.misc, I had to split the patchfile up. I did it with a Perl script but, if you haven't got a working Perl ATM, you could use awk. Chris Faylor said to me: > I think that the patch that is distributed in cdk.exe is essentially > brain dead. I ended up recompiling the latest version from > prep.ai.mit.edu and it works much better. I haven't yet tried this, but it might be a better way for you to proceed. Pete Jordan = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Horus Communications http://www.horus.cix.co.uk/ = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = "Is a polar bear a rectangular bear after a coordinate transform?" - 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".