From: DHammond AT fujisec DOT com (Don Hammond) Subject: RE: looking for cygnus compatible perl 23 Dec 1997 07:25:45 -0800 Message-ID: <01017FB1F1C6D011852400805FC18B256070.cygnus.gnu-win32@NTNY-EXCH> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain To: "'Jon S. Jaques'" , cgf AT bbc DOT com, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Jon - I managed to do this yesterday using GNU sources and Christopher Faylor's patch. I am a user, *not* a developer, so am out of my element when packages don't build easily. I'm not sure how well I did -- the only thing I've tried so far is the Perl TEST which comes with the distribution, and it only succeeded on 79% of the tests. I haven't had time to try anything else. This was my second attempt, having made the mistake mentioned by Chris Faylor of reading the README.cygwin before applying the patch. The only significant change I made during Configure was to add the cc flag: -DDEBUGGING. I don't know if that was a good choice or not, but it appeared to me that this was necessary for full functionality of the Perl debugger. I kept fairly comprehensive notes of the whole Configure process after the first attempt failed. I would be happy to forward the notes on to you if you think it will help, although all they will show is that I accepted most of the default choices, except for things like host and domain name. I also have the redirected std out and std err from running make and the Perl TEST, if anybody wants to see those for any reason. The only non-standard thing I did was edit the config.sh (in a separate bash window) before running make depend. This was to correct a mistake I had made on man page location. (I had a problem using vi in a shell escape from Configure due to another problem.) The moral of the story: if I can do it, most anyone can. [BTW - Thanks to all who have contributed to cygwin32. It is a Godsend to this user forced to NT. And thanks to Christopher Faylor for the Perl patch, and others making their work available. I sure wish I could contribute, but I'm barely smart enough to use this stuff. Your talents are admired and appreciated.] - Don On Monday, December 22, 1997 8:19 AM, Jon S. Jaques writes: > Have you recently tried this from a "ground up" install? I still > have not gotten it to work, and so I still wonder about what else > is required. > > --jsj > > At 04:38 AM 12/20/97 GMT, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >If you're using my patches and Sergey's coolview, there should be no > >reason to #ifdef or #define anything. > > > >The main problems that people seem to be having are: > > > > [...] - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".