From: awnbreel AT panix DOT com (Michael R Weholt)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Configuring perl5004 problem.
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 1997 22:14:53 GMT
Organization: Rookery Prawl
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        [posted and emailed to Laszlo.]

I've been trying to compile Laszlo's new perl5004 using a dos box 
under windows 95.

When I run configure.bat -d, it fails at:

"Checking whether your C compiler can cast large floats to int32."

The error message is:

"The program encountered an invalid page exception.
Fault location:  00F7:3374
Interrupts in service: 2, 13"

and I have to close it down (the error message says I have to restart 
my computer, but that doesn't really seem to be the case).

So then, as advised in message <199709252238 DOT SAA20107 AT delorie DOT com>, I 
decided to try getting perl54cf.zip from Laszlo's site, but I couldn't 
get through to <http://sun10.vsz.bme.hu/~s0052mol>.

I've been compiling stuff (nothing big) with djgpp in a win95 dos box 
for a while now, so I don't think there's anything wrong with my 
set-up there.  Djgpp.env seems to be in order.  Configure.bat seems 
happy with everything right up until the error described above.

I sorta' wanted to compile it myself, so if anybody has any ideas, I'd 
appreciate hearing them.  Meanwhile, I guess I'll go get the 
binary.zip and try that.

I have 40megs of ram, if that is relevant to anything.

Thanks.

-- 
 mrw