Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 12:16:52 +0200 (METDST)
From: Robert Hoehne <robert DOT hoehne AT mathematik DOT tu-chemnitz DOT de>
To: Molnar Laszlo <molnarl AT cdata DOT tvnet DOT hu>
Cc: DJGPP workers <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: perl for djgpp
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On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, Molnar Laszlo wrote:

> When I first tried to run Configure, I received a SIGSEGV immediately.

And I got it, because I had in my djgpp.env the following:

[bash]
PATH_SEPARATOR=:

[sh]
PATH_SEPARATOR=:

And some minor problems to the source distrib:

I sent about half an hour to find the DJGPP readme
until I found it randomly in the base dir where I
unzipped the archive. Please move it to the bease
src directory and name it readme.dos or readme.djg.

I searched for it, becuase I couldn't find a configure.bat
(which was the next problem).

You should change the directory tree from

gnu/src/p500401

to only

gnu/p500401

And please try to strip the sources to the needed
files only for DJGPP which is common usage for
such huge source package (see the bnu281s.zip
file, which is hardly stripped down)

And at last some comments to your questions about
the binary distribution. Because I'm not so familar
with perl, I cannot say what the user really needs.
But you should include at least the doc and all the
stuff which is needed to use perl in a common way
(for instance to use automake or autoheader).

If the user needs really some special modules for
doing tricky perl programming, he should get the
sources and build them for it's own. I for instance
thought also the first time about including`libbfd.a 
and so on in the binary binutils package but then
I decided to not to do so.

Robert
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