Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 17:06:17 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Michael R Weholt <awnbreel AT panix DOT com>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Configuring perl5004 problem.
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On Sun, 26 Oct 1997, Michael R Weholt wrote:

> 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."

Does that work when you run configure.bat with no arguments?  It worked 
for me.

> 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>.

Apparently, the name of the server has changed; it is now
http://www.vsz.bme.hu.  However, that server is *VERY* slow, and the 
links to the zip files are broken anyway, since they use the old URL.
Use the alternate URL http://pop.tvnet.hu/~molnarl/ which works and is 
also faster.

> 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.

Ha!  So many things can go wrong with Windows 95 wrt the DJGPP setup that 
I wonder how can somebody be so sure that their setup is okay.  I know I 
aint that sure about my setup, and I'm building with DJGPP a LOT.