[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul J. Schinder) wrote:
>Is this an HFS+ partition? I've been building foolsperl on my UFS
>partition and haven't had any problems besides a few failed tests.
>If you have a UFS or access to an NFS mount, you may want to try it
>there. I don't know why HFS+ would be causing problems, since I know
>they're careful to allow Perl to build on a case insensitive file
>system.
Apparently not careful enough - I figured out the problem, and it's a
case sensitivity thing. The Makefile.SH script creates a file called
'Makefile', then removes a file called 'makefile' (which gets created
later - though I don't yet see how). On UFS this wouldn't be a problem,
but on HFS+ it destroys the file just created.
I see that this version of 'make' can use a makefile called
'GNUmakefile', so I'll try giving the flag '-Dfirstmakefile=GNUmakefile'
and see whether that helps.
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