From: jjaques AT grovehillsys DOT com (Jon S. Jaques) Subject: Re: looking for cygnus compatible perl 22 Dec 1997 05:43:36 -0800 Message-ID: <3.0.32.19971222081836.0095f250.cygnus.gnu-win32@mail.pair.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: cgf AT bbc DOT com, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Have you recently tried this from a "ground up" install? I still have not gotten it to work, and so I still wonder about what else is required. --jsj At 04:38 AM 12/20/97 GMT, Christopher Faylor wrote: >If you're using my patches and Sergey's coolview, there should be no >reason to #ifdef or #define anything. > >The main problems that people seem to be having are: > >1) They extract the perl files, read the README.cygwin, install my patch, > and do the operations in the README. Unfortunately, my patch changes > the README, so they're following old instructions. > >2) They do not extract the perl files to a 'binary' mounted directory and > the patch does not proceed correctly. Or, B18 patch screws up so > they need to grab and build a new version of patch. > >3) Most important: Many people do not have all of the environment variables > set up correctly to compile and link C programs. > >I have had a number of success stories so I am pretty sure that my patch >is correct. I think it is just a matter of making sure that the above >details have been covered. > >In article <19971219125959 DOT 13260 DOT qmail AT hotmail DOT com>, >Earnie Boyd wrote: >>I compiled the Perl package without much ado. When the compiler >>complained I either #ifdef'ed or #define'd the problems. Be sure to >>look at the configure --help and make a determination about switches. I >>did not compile the utilites just perl. >> >>>From: "Jon S. Jaques" >> >>>Personally, I can compile a simple file, >>>program1.cpp ("hello world") with *g++* but NOT >>>gcc (a friend suggested that the file was a >>>"plus-plus" and that gcc is not, but I don't >>>really know much about either... my primary reason >>>for this thing is just to get the new Perl >>>compiled on my system to open up some options in >>>my Perl programming... one language at a time, ple >>>ase! ) >>> >>>Please, if you have no luck, then lets' continue >>>this dialogue-- I'd really like to get this >>>resolved. >-- >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". > > -- Jon S. Jaques -- The Grove Hill Pages -- -- Now on the PerlRing! -- -- http://www.grovehillsys.com/scripting -- -- jjaques AT grovehillsys DOT com -- -- Linux: Salvation from Bill, Steve and Marc! -- - 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".