On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 11:39:52AM +0000, Edward Avis wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sat, 9 Mar 2002, Michael G Schwern wrote: > > >>MakeMaker breaks horribly when perl is installed > >>under C:\Program Files\Perl or similar. > > > >Could you illustrate the horrible breakage? > > % which perl > C:\Program Files\perl\bin\perl.exe > % perl Makefile.PL > Checking if your kit is complete... > Looks good > Unable to find a perl 5 (by these names: C:\Program Files\Perl\bin\perl.exe miniperl >perl [...]) > Writing Makefile for Term::ProgressBar
Hmmm. Could you run that again with the verbosity cranked up like so: $ perl -dw Makefile.PL Default die handler restored. Loading DB routines from perl5db.pl version 1.07 Editor support available. Enter h or `h h' for help, or `man perldebug' for more help. main::(Makefile.PL:13): $PACKAGE = 'ExtUtils::MakeMaker'; DB<1> use ExtUtils::MM_Unix DB<2> $ExtUtils::MM_Unix::Verbose = 2 DB<3> c Looking for perl 5 by these names: perl perl perl5 perl5.6.1 miniperl in these dirs: /home/schwern/bin /usr/local/sbin /usr/sbin /sbin /usr/local/bin /usr/bin /bin /usr/local/X11/bin /usr/bin/X11 /usr/games /usr/bin Checking /home/schwern/bin/perl Checking /usr/local/sbin/perl Checking /usr/sbin/perl Checking /sbin/perl Checking /usr/local/bin/perl Executing /usr/local/bin/perl Using PERL=/usr/local/bin/perl .... > PREFIX = C:\Program Files\Perl <snip> > NMAKE : fatal error U1073: don't know how to make 'C:\Program' > Stop. > > > I have experimented with various quoting schemes, but I haven't found > anything that works. As I mentioned in a previous message, none of " ' > \ or ^ seem to do the right thing. I think a first step might be to > isolate the C:\Program Files\Perl path in a single variable defined at > the top of the makefile. Curiouser and curiouser. Is there any official nmake documentation anywhere? > Another couple of bugettes are the failed 'Unable to find a perl 5' > check performed by MakeMaker itself, and the fact that nmake complains > if the name of a dependency contains a colon. Eh? -- Michael G. Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl Quality Assurance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kwalitee Is Job One Let's enjoy the traditional custom in Peru of getting leprosy.
