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Re: perl problems
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- Subject: Re: perl problems
- From: mh@mike.franken.de (Michael Hirmke)
- Date: 21 Aug 1999 23:57:00 +0200
- Organization: Kommunikationsnetz Franken e.V. (Nuernberg)
Charles S. Wilson [cwilson@ece.gatech.edu] wrote:
[...]
>If you want to use modules, then you need to build perl from source
>yourself. The reason for this is that the information used to compile
>modules is built into the perl executable and scripts when perl.exe is
>built. Thus, when you try to compile modules on *your* system, using the
>perl binary I built on *my* system, the paths and stuff aren't correct.
IMHO you just have to edit lib/Config.pm to reflect your filesystem
structure. It is not necessary to rebuild perl.
>Also, as you noticed, the permissions on the /usr/lib/perl5 tree, which are
>OK on *my* system, don't work properly on *your* system (because your
>username isn't "cwilson" and the /usr/local/lib/perl5 tree after untarring
>is still owned by cwilson, most likely).
This simply can be changed with chown or by "take ownership" from
explorer.
Btw. I use the ActiveState port of perl for months now without any
problem from bash.
Only thing is, that you have to use the c: syntax for drive letters
instead of /cygdrive/ or /c/. PerlWin32 even accepts / as separator.
[...]
>--Chuck
Bye.
Michael.
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