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From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: Automake broken - cannot find strict.pm ??
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 20:33:21 +0000
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Hello.

deckerben wrote:
[snip]
> idea: Does Perl come with its own config.site (I didn't look) ? If yes, then
> it got wiped out when I upgraded my fileutils.

Huh? The config.site file from the fileutils source distribution should only
be used for building fileutils. You shouldn't copy this into the DJGPP tree!
How did you upgrade fileutils? 

The only packages that come with a config.site script that should be placed
under $DJDIR/share are bash and autoconf.

> It would be nice, if this is
> the case, some installation utility merged config.site files and checked for
> validity.

The correct config.site is the one with latest date, I think. Whether that's
the one in bash of autoconf depends on which one was released last. Currently
I think autoconf 2.50's is the latest.
 
> Further question: if Perl is broken, why do other scripts (like autoconf and
> libtool) work apparently fine for me? Don't they need Perl, or??

One of the first things the automake script does is this:

eval 'exec /dev/env/DJDIR/bin/perl.exe -S $0 ${1+"$@"}'
    if 0;

Maybe this has some weird side-effects in the DJGPP port of perl?

Bye,

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Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ]