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Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 09:12:41 +0200
From: Tim Van Holder <tim DOT vanholder AT falconsoft DOT be>
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To: Bob Chapman <rechapman AT my-deja DOT com>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Automake 1.5
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Bob Chapman wrote:
> 
> > >  > Can't locate strict.pm in @INC (@INC contains: \
> > >   /dev/env/DJDIR/share/automake /dev/env/djdir/lib/perl5 \
> > >   /dev/env/djdir/lib/perl5/site /dev/env/djdir/lib/perl5/site \
> > >   c:/djgpp/lib/perl5/site .) \
> > >   at /dev/env/DJDIR/share/automake/Automake/Struct.pm line 29.
> > >  > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted \
> > >   at /dev/env/DJDIR/share/automake/Automake/Struct.pm line 29.
> > >  > Compilation failed in require at c:/djgpp/bin/automake line 39.
> > >  > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at c:/djgpp/bin/automake line 39.
> > >
> >
> > Very odd - you obviously have Perl, but it seems unable to find its own
> > files.  Its search path seems correct as well.
> > What version of perl do you have installed?  The later the better; 5.6.x
> > recommended, though not required.
> > Do you have a strict.pm file anywhere on your disk?
> 
> Thanks for the reply.  I had installed (and redownloaded & reinstalled - x
> many :) the contents of:
> 
>      -rw-r--r--   1 REC      root      4397999 Sep 11 23:13 perl561b.zip
> 
> which installs a perl.exe that reports:
> 
>    > perl --version
>    This is perl, v5.6.1 built for dos-djgpp
>    . . . . .

That should be fine.

> After the installation (including the README.1st instructions :) there is a
> 'strict.pm' file located as follows:
> 
>    > find /djgpp -iname 'strict*'
>    /djgpp/lib/perl5/strict.pm
> 
>    > vdir /djgpp/lib/perl5/strict.pm
>    -rw-r--r--   1 REC      root         2624 Apr 16 17:30 /djgpp/lib/perl5/strict.pm

Looks fine as well; plus, this directory is included in the
reported search path.  The only strange thing is that it uses
/dev/env/djdir/ instead of /dev/env/DJDIR/, but that shouldn't
make a difference I think.

try running 'perl foo.pl' with foo.pl containing

  print "\$djdir is \"$ENV{'djdir'}\".\n";
  print "/dev/env/djdir/djgpp.env exist\n"
    if -r "/dev/env/djdir/djgpp.env";
  print "\$DJDIR is \"$ENV{'DJDIR'}\".\n";
  print "/dev/env/DJDIR/djgpp.env exists\n"
    if -r "/dev/env/DJDIR/djgpp.env";

If it does not print that /dev/env/djdir/djgpp.env exists, there
may be a serious problem with the 5.6.1 package (it would prohibit
packages using ANY perl library packages from working).  In this
case, you can probably work around it:  there is a BEGIN block at
the top of automake; adding
  unshift @INC, "c:/djgpp/lib/perl5";
at the end there should allow it to find strict.pm.

> FWIW, aclocal appears to work.
> 
>    > aclocal --version
>    aclocal (GNU automake) 1.5

Not that surprising, since aclocal doesn't use any external
procedures.