On 11 Apr 2004 at 23:57, Rick Fitzsimmons wrote: > So, I moved onto another PC. > Clean XP-Home install. > Installed ActiveState build 809 using: > ActivePerl-5.8.3.809-MSWin32-x86.msi > Then loaded PAR0.80 using: > ppm install http://www.bribes.org/perl/ppm/PAR.ppd. > No installation problems were reported. > Created a small Perl program called "hello.pl": > use strict; > use warnings; > print "Hello!\n"; > Tried to package with pp using: > pp -o hello.exe hello.pl > And I get exactly the same problem. Three spurious characters after the > sha-1 hash string, and XP fails to create the directory.
I suspect something is wrong with the bribes package. I have XP and ActivePerl 5.6.1. If I use the bribes package, I get the same error, but if I download the PAR 0.80 package from the PAR web site and compile myself, or use the binary from there, I have no problems. If you have nmake (nmake15 can be found on the 'net), you can download from the PAR web site and install yourself. It's the standard steps: perl Makefile.PL nmake nmake install and if you don't have a path to a compiler, it will download a PAR with the binaries. ppm is nice when a package has docs ready to stuff into the ActivePerl html dir, but PAR doesn't have them (yet). I have no idea what could be different about the bribes compile. I am using VC 6.0 and I think Autrijus is also. Has anyone seen this problem with anything other than the bribes package?? Alan Stewart
