On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 08:41:53PM -0000, Rob Dixon wrote:
> I've read through the FAQ and Tutorial and have
> downloaded both the 'Download' and 'Snapshot'
> *.tar.gz files and haven't been able to get
> either functioning on my machine. (Yes, I can
> unpack them.)
And did you read the "README" that comes after unpacking?
It should say something like:
perl Makefile.PL
make # or 'nmake' on Win32
make test
make install
which the standard way to build a module for Perl.
> For free functionality, PAR seems to excel, but
> also seems to suffer from the 'insider dealing'
> that segregates Unix from its contemporaries.
Hmm. You are most welcome to submit a more friendly
installation guide, either to the Wiki or to this
mailing list, and I'll consider merging it.
> I run Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 98SE,
> Windows NT 4.1, Windows 2000 Pro,
> Windows XP Pro, CygWin, Xenix and RedHat Linux
> (and CP/M).
> What am I missing that I can't get PAR running?
Did you try installing it as per the instruction above?
Thanks,
/Autrijus/
