doh - there was a empty "::" in my PATH. I'll try again. Thanks for the
quick reply.

Martin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael van Elst [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 2:49 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: failing to build perl-5.8.0-1.2.0 on solaris 7
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jan 29, 2003, Andrews, Martin wrote:
> 
> Hi Martin,
> 
> > I am trying to build perl from the 1.2.0 release under 
> solaris 7 and it is
> > dying near the end when it uses rpmtool. It appears that 
> rpmtool is finding
> > the perl that was just built but not its module library - 
> therefore it is
> > unable to use the glob() function which requires the 
File::Glob module. Any
> ideas?

rpmtool searches $PATH for 'perl5', 'perl' and 'miniperl'. I fear
the problem occurs as soon as you have '.' in your $PATH because rpmtool
then picks up the newly created perl binary from the build directory.

Greetings,
-- 
                                       Michael van Elst
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