> I got perl-5.6.2 .patch says 21216.
> I cd to win32 (like normal), and issue nmake.
> when it gets to building ..\ext\Socket it somehow
> issues ld.exe instead of link.exe to build Socket.
> I do have cygwin installed with ld (it's last in my path),
> but all the stuff before Socket
> used `link' to link, not ld. See for yourself:
This is because the makemaker in the orginal 5.6.2 release has a bug where the default linker is set to LD.
A patch has already been created and applied (afaik), but youll probably need to apply it to your system until the latest release is merged into 5.6.2.
Anyway, im attaching it here.
Yves
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