Re: looking for cygnus compatible perl

["Jon S. Jaques" <jjaques at grovehillsys dot com>]

Have you recently tried this from a "ground up" install? I still have not
gotten it to work, and so I still wonder about what else is required.

--jsj

At 04:38 AM 12/20/97 GMT, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>If you're using my patches and Sergey's coolview, there should be no
>reason to #ifdef or #define anything.
>
>The main problems that people seem to be having are:
>
>1) They extract the perl files, read the README.cygwin, install my patch,
>   and do the operations in the README.  Unfortunately, my patch changes
>   the README, so they're following old instructions.
>
>2) They do not extract the perl files to a 'binary' mounted directory and
>   the patch does not proceed correctly.  Or, B18 patch screws up so
>   they need to grab and build a new version of patch.
>
>3) Most important:  Many people do not have all of the environment variables
>   set up correctly to compile and link C programs.
>
>I have had a number of success stories so I am pretty sure that my patch
>is correct.  I think it is just a matter of making sure that the above
>details have been covered.
>
>In article <19971219125959.13260.qmail@hotmail.com>,
>Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>I compiled the Perl package without much ado.  When the compiler 
>>complained I either #ifdef'ed or #define'd the problems.  Be sure to 
>>look at the configure --help and make a determination about switches.  I 
>>did not compile the utilites just perl.
>>
>>>From: "Jon S. Jaques" <sysadmin@almus.com>
>>
>>>Personally, I can compile a simple file,
>>>program1.cpp ("hello world") with *g++* but NOT
>>>gcc (a friend suggested that the file was a
>>>"plus-plus" and that gcc is not, but I don't
>>>really know much about either... my primary reason
>>>for this thing is just to get the new Perl
>>>compiled on my system to open up some options in
>>>my Perl programming... one language at a time, ple
>>>ase! <grin>)
>>>
>>>Please, if you have no luck, then lets' continue
>>>this dialogue-- I'd really like to get this
>>>resolved.
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