From: syring@pollux.edv.agrar.tu-muenchen.de (Karl Martin Syring) Subject: RE: Perl 5.003_90 Configure recursion using beta 17.1 1 Mar 1997 04:29:21 -0800 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <01BC2616.9A0276C0.cygnus.gnu-win32@coyote.pnut.agrar.tu-muenchen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Original-To: "'Robert Rainthorpe'" , "'gnu-win32@cygnus.com'" Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com You got the wrong configure (notice small "c"). Try to extract Configure from the tar file (this is the bigger one). Regards Karl -----Original Message----- From: Robert Rainthorpe [SMTP:R.J.Rainthorpe@greenwich.ac.uk] Sent: Freitag, 28. Februar 1997 18:02 To: 'gnu-win32@cygnus.com' Subject: Perl 5.003_90 Configure recursion using beta 17.1 I'm having difficulty getting perl to install: I'm starting with a clean installation of GNU-WIN32 as per the FAQ I'm then following the instructions given by K.M.Syring, as updated yesterday. (http://www.edv.agrar.tu-muenchen.de/~syring/gnu-win32/index.html) I'm assuming that instruction 1. should refer to /srcdir, rather than srcdir (I have tried both). When I get to instruction 3 - "sh Configure", the script appears to run recursively. On screen I get: bash$ sh Configure sh Configure -ds -e sh Configure -ds -e -ds -e sh Configure -ds -e -ds -e -ds -e sh Configure -ds -e -ds -e -ds -e -ds -e [] [snip] ....... - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".