Re: Problems with perl and pod2html

[Carlo Florendo <list-subscriber at hq dot astra dot ph>]

Thomas,


Thomas Rabe wrote:

> Hello,
> I'm trying to compile a project under windows 2000 professional using
> MSVC C++ 6.0 and the cygwin package and get the following message:
>
>  
> text2pcap-scanner.c
> Linking text2pcap.exe
>        link @C:\DOCUME~1\rt7zfe\LOCALS~1\Temp\nmf01876.
>        cd doc
>        NMAKE /                   -f Makefile.nmake
>
> Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance-Dienstprogramm: Version 6.00.8168.0
> Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1988-1998. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.
>
>        bash pod2html                     --title="The Ethereal Network
> Analyzer
> 0.10.10"  --noindex                                  ethereal-tmp.pod >
> ethereal.html
> bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!
> pod2html: line 1: c:/programme/cygwin/usr/bin/perl: is a directory
> pod2html: line 1: exec: c:/programme/cygwin/usr/bin/perl: cannot
> execute: No error
> NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'bash' : Rueckgabe-Code '0x7e'Stop.
> NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'C:\Programme\MVS\VC98\bin\NMAKE.EXE' :
> Rueckgabe-Code '0x2'
> Stop.
>
> D:\Ethernet\ethereal-0.10.10>
>
>
>
>
>
> Pod2html seems to need an executable file with the path usr/bin/perl.
> The beginning of pod2html is:
>
>
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>    eval 'exec c:programme/cygwin/usr/bin/perl -S $0 ${1+"$@"}'
> (I had to change the path from usr/bin/perl, because it wasn't found)
> 	if $running_under_some_shell;
> =pod
>
> =head1 NAME
>
> pod2html - convert .pod files to .html files
>
>
>
>
> But in the cygwin package usr/bin/perl is an empty dirctory (as stated
> in the message). The /tmp directory exists, too. So I'm a bit confused.
> Can anybody help me? Thank you.
>
>
>
> Regards 
>
>           Thomas Rabe
>
>
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It would be better if there were more details in this problem of yours.  
Please read http://cygwin.com/problems.html and take note of the part 
that talks about running cygcheck.

Thanks!

Best Regards,

Carlo

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Carlo Florendo
Astra Philippines Inc.
www.astra.ph


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