From: pjfarley AT banet DOT net (Peter J. Farley III)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: perl5/DJGPP: MakeMaker cannot find perl executable
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 03:17:21 GMT
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pjfarley AT banet DOT net (Peter J. Farley III) wrote:
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>>When I tested module building I used a good old version of bash
>>1.14.7.2 - I think it's still available from the simtelnet. bash 2.0.3
>>can't even run the testsuite for me.
>>
>>HTH,Laszlo
>
>I also have a copy of that older bash binary, so I will swap it into
>my setup and see if it works, and report back here on the results.

Sorry, but both older bash versions 1.14.7(1) and 1.14.7(2) allow the
same failure to occur:

M:\Text-CSV>bash
bash$ set|grep BASH_VERSION
BASH_VERSION=1.14.7(2)
bash$ perl Makefile.PL
Unable to find a perl 5 (by these names: m:/bin/perl.exe miniperl perl
perl5 perl5.00502, in these dirs: M:\BIN C:\PROGRA~1\PERSON~1 D:\BAT
D:\UT D:\PT C:\ C:\WINDOWS C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND
C:\PROGRA~1\NETWOR~1\MCAFEE~1 C:\PROGRA~1\SYMANTEC\PCANYW~1\ m:/bin)
Writing Makefile for Text::CSV
bash$

M:\Text-CSV>bash
bash$ set|grep BASH_VERSION
BASH_VERSION=1.14.7(1)
bash$ perl Makefile.PL
Unable to find a perl 5 (by these names: m:/bin/perl.exe miniperl perl
perl5 pel5.00502, in these dirs: M:\BIN C:\PROGRA~1\PERSON~1 D:\BAT
D:\UT D:\PT C:\ C:\WINDOWS C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND
C:\PROGRA~1\NETWOR~1\MCAFEE~1 C:\PROGRA~1\SYMANTEC\PCNYW~1\ m:/bin)
Writing Makefile for Text::CSV
bash$

Any further ideas would be appreciated.  Failing that, I would guess
it is time to try to build perl5 with the new bash, and fix things as
we find them.

If a new build is called for, is there any advantage in starting with
the latest GNU tarball?  Or would it be easier/smarter to start with
the existing version 5.52 DJGPP source?

TIA for your help and advice.

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