Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 13:16:48 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Trouble with djgpp and perl installation
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On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, David Boerschlein wrote:

>    I got the "gnu" distribution on CD from the Free Software
>    Foundation and the autoinstall apparantly did not properly install
>    perl properly.
> 
>    Here is my perl script (abc.pl):
> 
>        #!/bin/perl
>        require POSIX;

I'm not a Perl userf, but shouldn't the last line read "use POSIX;"?

>    Here is the error message from perl:
> 
>        Can't locate POSIX.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
>                                       c:/fsf/lib/perl5
>                                       c:/fsf/lib/perl5/site .)
>        at abc.pl line 2.  [formatting mine]

I get the same error message on my machine when I try to run your script.
Since Perl is installed correctly on my machine (not from the CD, from a 
binary distribution available on DJGPP sites), I'm guessing that the 
installation is not the culprit.  Either your script is wrong, or this is 
some general bug/misfeature in Perl.

Any Perl gurus here to help us out?

>    Also, for the Free Software Foundation people (or whoever is maintaining
>    the auto-install program), it might be nice if users are asked questions
>    about what they do and do not want to install.   For example, LaTeX, etc
>    are big and not everyone may want them.   The program can always install
>    the kernel (bin) but can omit emacs and/or compilers and/or LaTeX, etc.

The installation program lets you specify whether you want Emacs or not.  
If you want more selectivity, the book which comes with the software 
explains how to install selected packages manually.  Most users of the 
automatic installer won't know enough about the packages to decide what 
to install and what not to install.