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I have a WinNT (4.0) disk mounted on my Solaris (2.7) workstation, using Intergraph's "DiskShare" tool. I got perl5.005_03 from CPAN, unpacked it using Solaris gzip & tar, and ran "sh Configure"... it seems to finish normally, with NO ERRORS, but "make" with no args fails: % make make: Fatal error: No arguments to build The problem, it turns out, is case sensitivity in filenames. It's not REALLY necessary to have files which differ ONLY in the case of their first character, is it? As you probably know, WinNT preserves case of filenames but if the exact case isn't found it tries any old case for a match. Finds one! Makefile vs. makefile. Any chance you could remove case-only differences in file names to protect those of us unfortunate to have NT disks on the network? Here's the directory after "Configure" runs in a directory that is physically on a WinNT disk: % ls Artistic README.mint config.h globals.c minimod.pl perlvars.h scope.h Changes README.mpeix config.sh gv.c miniperlmain.c perly.c sv.c Changes5.000 README.os2 config_h.SH gv.h mint perly.fixer sv.h Changes5.001 README.os390 configpm h2pl mpeix perly.h t Changes5.002 README.plan9 configure.com handy.h mv-if-diff perly.y taint.c Changes5.003 README.qnx configure.gnu hints myconfig perly_c.diff thrdvar.h Changes5.004 README.threads cop.h hv.c nostdio.h plan9 thread.h Configure README.vms cv.h hv.h objXSUB.h pod thread.sym Copying README.vos cygwin32 installhtml objpp.h pp.c toke.c EXTERN.h README.win32 deb.c installman op.c pp.h universal.c INSTALL Todo djgpp installperl op.h pp_ctl.c unixish.h INTERN.h Todo-5.005 doio.c intrpvar.h opcode.h pp_hot.c util.c MANIFEST XSUB.h doop.c iperlsys.h opcode.pl pp_proto.h util.h Makefile.SH XSlock.h dosish.h keywords.h os2 pp_sys.c utils Policy.sh apollo dump.c keywords.pl patchlevel.h proto.h vms Policy_sh.SH av.c ebcdic.c lib perl.c qnx vos Porting av.h eg makeaperl perl.exp regcomp.c win32 README beos emacs makeaperl.SH perl.h regcomp.h writemain README.amiga bytecode.h embed.h makedepend perl_exp.SH regcomp.pl writemain.SH README.apollo bytecode.pl embed.pl makedepend.SH perlio.c regcomp.sym x2p README.beos byterun.c embedvar.h makedir perlio.h regexec.c README.cygwin32 byterun.h ext makedir.SH perlio.sym regexp.h README.dos cc_runtime.h fakethr.h malloc.c perlsdio.h regnodes.h README.hpux cflags form.h mg.c perlsfio.h run.c README.hurd cflags.SH global.sym mg.h perlsh scope.c Here's the same directory after "Configure" runs in /tmp: % ls Artistic README.hurd cflags.SH global.sym malloc.c perlmain.c regexp.h Changes README.mint config.h globals.c mg.c perlsdio.h regnodes.h Changes5.000 README.mpeix config.sh gv.c mg.h perlsfio.h run.c Changes5.001 README.os2 config_h.SH gv.h minimod.pl perlsh scope.c Changes5.002 README.os390 configpm h2pl miniperlmain.c perlvars.h scope.h Changes5.003 README.plan9 configure.com handy.h mint perly.c sv.c Changes5.004 README.qnx configure.gnu hints mpeix perly.fixer sv.h Configure README.threads cop.h hv.c mv-if-diff perly.h t Copying README.vms cv.h hv.h myconfig perly.y taint.c EXTERN.h README.vos cygwin32 installhtml nostdio.h perly_c.diff thrdvar.h INSTALL README.win32 deb.c installman objXSUB.h plan9 thread.h INTERN.h Todo djgpp installperl objpp.h pod thread.sym MANIFEST Todo-5.005 doio.c intrpvar.h op.c pp.c toke.c Makefile XSUB.h doop.c iperlsys.h op.h pp.h universal.c Makefile.SH XSlock.h dosish.h keywords.h opcode.h pp_ctl.c unixish.h Policy.sh apollo dump.c keywords.pl opcode.pl pp_hot.c util.c Policy_sh.SH av.c ebcdic.c lib os2 pp_proto.h util.h Porting av.h eg makeaperl patchlevel.h pp_sys.c utils README beos emacs makeaperl.SH perl.c proto.h vms README.amiga bytecode.h embed.h makedepend perl.exp qnx vos README.apollo bytecode.pl embed.pl makedepend.SH perl.h regcomp.c win32 README.beos byterun.c embedvar.h makedir perl_exp.SH regcomp.h writemain README.cygwin32 byterun.h ext makedir.SH perlio.c regcomp.pl writemain.SH README.dos cc_runtime.h fakethr.h makefile perlio.h regcomp.sym x2p README.hpux cflags form.h makefile.old perlio.sym regexec.cThread Next