On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 08:59, Matt Sergeant wrote: > On Wednesday, Jun 11, 2003, at 23:18 Europe/London, Peter Flynn wrote: > > > make' > > make_set test 'OTHERLDFLAGS=-liconv' > > sh: -c: line 2: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `'' > > sh: -c: line 3: syntax error: unexpected end of file > > system call to 'make' > > The problem is something to do with this. A rogue single-quote > (apostrophe) character has found it's way into the Makefile.PL somehow. > > Can you try downloading AxKit again from a known-good source like CPAN > or axkit.org?
Did this from several sources and they all fail. Conclusion is that I have some rogue Perl code somewhere. Problem is, I'm not a Perl user, so what's there must be whatever default RH9 installs, as I've never consciously downloaded or added/deleted anything to it. Commenting out the have_library call creates a Makefile of trash, missing punctuation and garbled values all over the place. Is it worth deleting the entire Perl installation and reinstalling from a fresh source (non-RH) build? That has its own problems, as the last time I had to do this (on a RH6.2 machine), it had to be a --forced deinstall (because so much of the RH system has a Perl dependency) and although compiling and installing a new Perl was no problem, I couldn't find out where @INC was defined, because almost everything needing Perl immediately crashed because all kinds of needed utilities couldn't be found, and @INC was very obviously looking in The Wrong Places :-) I originally wanted to use the default Apache, but RH9 installs Apache2, so I trashed that and installed 1.3 with matching mod_perl. But that means I have no Apache RPM, so I can't use the AxKit RPM, and I can't use the Apache 1.3 RPM because it doesn't seem to be possible to install a mod_perl with it. Catch-22222: this is why I asked if anyone has ever got AxKit to work under RH9. I'm baffled as to why no-one else has ever come across this one, and of course there is zero documentation on the problem. ///Peter --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
