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That was it. Thanks. And thanks to you and Jesse and all the people who put in so much work on developing perl and especially to those who take the time to help the clueless, like me. I've benefited so much over the years and you guys never get the recognition you deserve. Anyway, I've finally ponied up some cash and made a donation to TPF. I'm going to make that an annual thing. On 6/29/2010 8:39 PM, Andy Dougherty wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jun 2010, Bill Kurland wrote: > > >> I am trying to build 5.10.1 under AIX 5.3. The README.aix says that this has >> been done successfully with gcc 4.2 >> > >> # ./Configure -d -Dcc=gcc -Duseshrplib -Dprefix=/usr/opt/perl5_32 >> > >> # gnumake -v >> GNU Make 3.80 >> > [then much later] > > >> make: Not a recognized flag: w >> usage: make [-einqrst] [-k|-S] [-d[A|adg[1|2]mstv]] [-D variable] [-f makefile >> ] [-j [jobs]] [variable=value ...] [target ...] >> gnumake[1]: *** [subdirs] Error 2 >> gnumake[1]: Leaving directory `/mkcd/cd_images/perl-5.10.1/ext/Encode' >> > I'm pretty sure the problem is one of mixing different versions of 'make'. > Configure expects you to use the system's native 'make' program. That > would be my first recommendation. If you really want to use GNU make, > then tell Configure that with -Dmake=gnumake. > > Let us know if just using plain 'make' works. (You'll want to start with > a fresh copy of the source to make sure no GNU make-isms have made it in.) > > Hope this helps, > >Thread Previous | Thread Next