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Date: Fri, 07 Nov 1997 16:30:22 +0100
From: Molnar Laszlo <molnarl AT cdata DOT tvnet DOT hu>
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To: Campbell Allan <allanca AT dcs DOT gla DOT ac DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: Configuring perl5004 problem.
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Campbell Allan wrote:

>Molnar Laszlo wrote:
>> You are lucky. I tried to build perl on win95 twice. There was no
>> problem at first, but I got a GPF next time. At that point I had no
>> idea, because everything in my environment were the same. So I suspected
>> a win95 "feature" or a problem with the computer, and decided to
>> distribute a config.sh file.

>I've just installed perl last night and came across a bit of information
>which might help. The documentation tells you you need a certain version
>of fileutils (version 3.16+) for building it under '95. As well as most
>of the other tools ie sed, gawk, grep sh-utils, textutils,bash,
>diffutils, make and findutils.

It seems my problem was the buggy go32-v2.exe.

Laszlo (who wrote that documentation for perl :-))