"Gisle Askestad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
please dont top post. f'ups rearranged. > >>I'm using RedHat 8.0 and Perl 5.8.0 > >> > >>I'm trying to install Time:HiRes from CPAN which is needed to > >>use the File::Tail module. When running "Make" i get the error: > >> > >>Makefile:91: *** missing separator. Stop. > >> > >>Makefile.PL says: > >> > >>NOTE: if you get an error like this (the line number may vary): > >>Makefile:91: *** missing separator > >>then set the environment variable LC_ALL to "C" and retry. > >> > >> > >>Anyone knows where or how to set envionment variable LC_ALL to "C"? > >> > >setenv LC_ALL=C (or similar based on OS/version/whatever) > >man setenv > >man printenv > > > I tried: setenv LC_ALL=C > It returned: bash: setenv: command not found > > "set env LC_ALL=C" does not return any error, but printenv > does not show LC_ALL=C in the environment variables. > > man setenv and man printenv, even printenv works fine. > > My ReaHat build is complete - all 4 gigs of RedHat RPMS. > Looks to me that this is a linux problem and not a perl problem. > > Still, any ideas what might be the problem? The problem is that you need a primer in shell programming. Linux defaults to bash, which uses "export" to configure the environment. Notice the quote: > >setenv LC_ALL=C (or similar based on OS/version/whatever) from your first reply. $ export LC_ALL=C Please go get a book on Linux basics from the library. HTH, Todd W. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
