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RE: Problems build perl modules on Win2K using cygwin


1. Make sure the file system you're sending Makefile.new to is mounted 
   binary.

2. Try it with the Cygwin version of Perl.

3. Look at that line to see if there is something questionable there.

That's my best advice, in any order you please.;-)

Larry



At 05:42 PM 10/26/00, Christopher Hahn wrote:

>Larry (et al),
>
>You may have it there.   I am using the latest ActiveState
>build (well, fairly fresh anyway), i.e. "which perl" reports
>c:\perl\bin/perl.exe, which is this AS install.
>
>Here is perl -v, from the Cygwin command prompt:
>===========================
>$ perl -v
>
>This is perl, v5.6.0 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
>(with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail)
>
>Copyright 1987-2000, Larry Wall
>
>Binary build 618 provided by ActiveState Tool Corp.
>http://www.ActiveState.com
>Built 21:03:54 Sep 13 2000
>===========================
>
>I cannot run everything through tr though?
>
>How would you recommend I proceed?
>
>Thank you again for your thoughts,
>
>Christopher
>
>P.S. I gave it a whirl, but am seeing the same errors:
>===========================
>$ cat Makefile | tr --delete \r >Makefile.new
>
>$ make -f Makefile.new all
>Makefile.new:638: *** missing separator.  Stop.
>===========================
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners Inc) [mailto:lhall@rfk.com]
>Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 2:05 PM
>To: Christopher Hahn; 'cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com'
>Subject: RE: Problems build perl modules on Win2K using cygwin
>
>
>What Perl are you using, ActiveState or a Cygwin version?  If you're using
>ActiveState, this will add CR/LF.  To test if this is the problem, run your
>makefile through "tr -d\r" to strip the carriage returns.  If you're running
>
>the Cygwin version of Perl, send the output of cygcheck -s -r -v and
>cygcheck 
>perl to the list.
>
>Larry
>
>
>At 05:07 PM 10/26/00, Christopher Hahn wrote:
>>Larry,
>>
>>Thank you for taking the time.
>>
>>I installed my version of Cygwin yesterday,
>>on an otherwise clean machine.
>>
>>Here is my uname -a:
>>CYGWIN_NT-5.0 CHAHN-DEV 1.1.4(0.26/3/2) 2000-08-03 20:53 i686 unknown
>>
>>
>>Hmmmmmm, what dll's should I look at?
>>
>>Christopher
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners Inc) [mailto:lhall@rfk.com]
>>Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 1:54 PM
>>To: Christopher Hahn; 'cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com'
>>Subject: Re: Problems build perl modules on Win2K using cygwin
>>
>>
>>At 04:37 PM 10/26/00, Christopher Hahn wrote:
>>
>>>Hello,
>>>
>>>I have installed the cygwin environment to support building
>>>tools from source on NT and win2000.
>>>
>>>I successfully executed the standard: configure/make/make install
>>>for a simple package (pdksh).
>>>
>>>But when I try building a Perl Win32 module from the CPAN I am
>>>seeing an error, consistently.
>>>
>>>=======The commands========
>>>$ perl Makefile.PL
>>>Checking if your kit is complete...
>>>Looks good
>>>Writing Makefile for Win32::SystemInfo
>>>
>>>$ make
>>>Makefile:638: *** missing separator.  Stop.
>>>==========================
>>>
>>>I am going to root about in the makefile and post to a win32 perl
>>>group that I lurk about, but I thought that this might be a cygwin
>>>specific issue and wanted to let you know.
>>>
>>>I am not a member of this email group, so a direct Cc would
>>>be appreciated,
>>>
>>>Thank you for your time,
>>>
>>>Christopher
>>>
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>>
>>
>>If you don't have the most up-to-date DLL and make, get them.  The is most
>>likely a CR/LF issue...
>>
>>
>>Larry Hall                              lhall@rfk.com
>>RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
>>118 Washington Street                   (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
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>>                                        


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