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Postings from August 2001
Hello there, I want to use perl on OS2. For a first try I downloaded and installed the binary version from CPAN. That worked quite well. I used the standard installer and placed the files in the locations that are suggested by the installer. Now I want to compile the current stable version. OK, so I took the perl0S2-DOC and did as it told me: + I downloaded the perl sources (stable.zip) and extracted them to drive F + I downloaded the necessary stuff for EMX (zips: emxdev1, emxdev2, bsddev, gnudev1, gnudev2) and installed it to C:\emx + I downloaded the necessary gnu stuff (zips: gnupatch, gnufind, gnuawk, gnufutil, gnusutil, gnututil, gnused, gnumake, ksh527rt) and installed all the EXEs and dlls to F:\bin + I made sure that GNU find / sort are found first + . is in my LIBPATH + I placed Ilyas db.lib in the corresponding directory + I added the necessary settings to config.sys + I did: gnupatch -p0 < os2\diff.configure I had a look around and found no other patches to apply (the ones that came with the binary port seem to be already included in the current sources). + I did sh Configure -des -D prefix=f:/perllib ... see what happened: --> [F:\p561]sh Configure -des -D perllib_prefix=f:/perllib (I see you are using the Korn shell. Some ksh's blow up on Configure., mainly on older exotic systems. If yours does, try the Bourne shell instead.) Sorry, I can't seem to locate the source dir for perl5. Please start Configure with an explicit path -- i.e. /some/path/Configure. <-- Then I tried a lot of things like sh /p561/Configure ... or sh Configure -des -D ... /p561 and so on - but the message never changes. Now I am really stunned since I thought that I really followed the instructions step by step (and other things are working quite well; for example I had no problem to create and install a perl extension as told in the perlxstut). So please point out the single thing that I did wrong ;-) thx,