On July 6, 1999 at 21:41, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
> > What does the following command output:
> >
> > perl -e 'print $^O, "\n";'
>
> Since I do not have shell access to my server, I run the following
> commands in a perl script instead:
>
> $output = system (perl -e 'print $^O, "\n";');
> print $output;
>
> and it outputs:
>
> 65280
You are actually printing the return value of system(). However,
the perl -V below gives me what I need to know.
> > perl -V
> A lot. Here it is:
>
> Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 4 subversion 1) configuration:
> Platform:
> osname=bsdos, osvers=2.1, archname=i386-bsdos
---------------^^^
Ugh.
Delete line 67 of your copy of osinit.pl. It should contain the
following:
($^O =~ /dos/i) ||
This expression is part of the windows/msdos check.
It is probably best to make the modification from where you extracted
the tar.gz file, and then do a re-install.
FYI, here is a context diff:
*** osinit.pl.org Tue Jul 6 13:24:40 1999
--- osinit.pl Tue Jul 6 13:24:52 1999
***************
*** 64,70 ****
} elsif (($^O !~ /cygwin/i) &&
(($^O =~ /win/i) ||
- ($^O =~ /dos/i) ||
(($tmp = $ENV{'COMSPEC'}) &&
($tmp =~ /^[a-zA-Z]:\\/) &&
(-e $tmp))) ) {
--- 64,69 ----
This should fix your problem until I improve the platform detection
code.
--ewh
