I found that the -Dfirstmakefile=GNUmakefile didn't stick - I had to edit
config.sh manually, and then run ./Configure -der after which everything
has proceeded smoothly.
Thanks for everyone's help.
-Aaron
On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Peter Prymmer wrote:
> That seems to be the correct explanation but your prescription is off by a
> bit. Apparently one ought to specify -Dfirstmakefile=GNUmakefile but this
> is something I have not personally tried. Here is the posting by Ken
> Williams to [EMAIL PROTECTED] that mentions this quirk of case
> insensitivity:
>
> 8<-----------------------------------------------
> >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Apr 11 10:38:41 2001
> Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 18:10:15 -0500
> From: Ken Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Perl 5.6.1 compiles on HFS+
>
> Hi all,
>
> I finally got Perl 5.6.1 to compile & test on OS X under an HFS+
> partition. The big step was to specify "-Dfirstmakefile=GNUmakefile" to
> Configure, since this avoids the conflict between 'makefile' and
> 'Makefile'.
>
> I also had to set the LC_ALL environment variable to 'C', since I was
> getting a lot of warnings about locales being messed up. I imagine I
> could have just unset the LANG variable too. Not sure whether there's
> any benefit to either.
>
> I've got a very vanilla Darwin, so others will probably have to do the
> same things I did.
>
> In a nutshell:
>
> % setenv LC_ALL C
> % sh Configure -ds -e -Dprefix=/usr -Dccflags="-g -pipe" -Dldflags=
>-Dfirstmakefile=GNUmakefile
> [bunch of output snipped]
> % make
> [bunch of output snipped]
> % make test
> Failed 4 test scripts out of 251, 98.41% okay.
>
>
> I didn't do 'make install', because I'm not quite ready to commit to
> this installation. I might wait for the Apple 10.0.1 update (or
> whatever they'll call it) because I don't want that mucking with any
> Perl I install now.
>
> The 4 tests that failed are expected to fail, and aren't really features
> I expect to use (Berkeley::DB btree and recno structures, a minor detail
> of the 'warnings' pragma, and something in the lib/posix.t test that I
> might check out later).
>
> I don't know whether I needed all those options to Configure, but those
> were the options specified in the version of Perl that ships with OS X
> (as shown in perl -V).
>
>
> ------------------- -------------------
> Ken Williams Last Bastion of Euclidity
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Math Forum
> 8<-----------------------------------------------
>
> I hope that helps.
>
> Peter Prymmer
>
>
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