Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 14:09:09 +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: <36DD9A38.8A754FF4@meridian22.net>; from Richard Dawe on Wed, Mar 03, 1999 at 08:23:20PM +0000
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On Wed, Mar 03, 1999 at 08:23:20PM +0000, Richard Dawe wrote:
> > 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 :-)
> 	OK, I tried it on DOS, but it crashed my computer one time, spontaneous
> rebooted another :(

Sounds bad :( I only saw problems like these when I started porting
perl 2 years ago.

> 	I wonder if the problem with ksh routine is because the path separator is
> misdetected.

What do you mean by misdetected? configure.bat sets the separator
explicitely.

> 	One thing I noticed while running it under DOS was that it was detecting
> Win95's find & sort commands because c:\windows\command was in my path before
> e:\djgpp\bin. Will this make any difference? I changed it anyway, but I didn't
> notice anything different.

I strongly suggest to put e:\djgpp\bin first in your path. For absolute
safety I've deleted those dos commands which have a GNU-util pair :-)

> 	Also, I have Activeware's Win32 Perl installed, and the Configure script
> detected it. Will this make any difference?

I don't think so, perl is not needed during the configure process. But
as Eli wrote, try renaming it when building the djgpp version.

> 	Would it help if I tried a clean install of DJGPP & others and then tried it?
> 	Here's the diff:

[..]

This stuff doesn't cause problems for me. The solution must be
something else. What do you think about posting your configuration
files (autoexec.bat,config.sys,djgpp.env) and an 'ls -l e:/djgpp/bin'
to me?

Laszlo