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On Mon Oct 22 10:21:49 2007, doughera wrote: > On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Peter Hill wrote: > > > > > I am trying to compile perl 5.8.8 from source. > > > > sh Configure -de > > > > appears to work, ending with > > > > > Extracting Makefile (with variable substitutions) > > > > > but Makefile, and x2p/Makefile are missing. (other file are created) > > > > > > This is very strange. I don't ever recall seeing this problem before. > > > It claims to have extracted Makefile. Can you try manually running > > > > > > sh Makefile.SH > > Nothing happens - no stderr or stdout, no file. > > > Ah! Good question - I was compiling from a samba share. Works fine > > when I copy everything local. Some strange permissions issue? I say > > strange because other files are created and I don't have problems > > compiling. Thanks for your help. > > Ah. I'll guess that the samba share is case-insensitive. On Unix, the > perl build system uses both a 'Makefile' and a 'makefile'. Part of the > extraction process of Makefile.SH removes the 'makefile'. Unfortunately, > it looks like that's actually removing 'Makefile' in your case. > > The workaround is simple: Tell Configure to use a different name instead > of 'makefile'. One that should work is the following: > > sh Configure -Dfirstmakefile=GNUmakefile > > (assuming you're using GNU make, which you probably are on Linux.) > (If you already have a config.sh file, you can just edit it and change > the one entry for firstmakefile by hand, and then run > sh Configure -S > to re-extract everything.) > > Configure probably ought to automatically detect this problem in advance, > but it doesn't. > > Hope this helps, > Andy D: We never heard further from the original poster. Do you think there are Configure issues still needing addressing here? Thank you very much. Jim Keenan --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: open https://rt.perl.org:443/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=46549Thread Next