Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 16:59:01 +0100
From: Laszlo Molnar <laszlo DOT molnar AT eth DOT ericsson DOT se>
To: Richard Dawe <richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com>
Cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Perl 5.004/5.005 compilation problems
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In-Reply-To: <36DAF8AA.6D20BB3A@meridian22.net>; from Richard Dawe on Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 08:29:30PM +0000
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On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 08:29:30PM +0000, Richard Dawe wrote:
> > - Did you use plain dos or win9x?
> 	Win95, with long filenames enabled.

Well, this can be a problem. Try to configure the stuff from plain dos.
The win9x build is a little bit broken in perl < 5.005_03 (since I only
tried it on dos :-)

> > - (What version of djdev do you use? Be careful, djdev202 will
> >   not work correctly with Perl < 5.5005_03.)
> 	I'm using djdev201, although I can use djdev202 too. I tried compiling Perl
> 5.004 and 5.005, but both crashed at the same point - just after the Xenix
> detection code in Configure.

Hmm, I think this can be another problem. go32.exe in djdev201 has some
problems under win9x. I suggest to upgrade go32.exe to 2.02, and try
again.

HTH, Laszlo