I am sorry to say that I had not seen your earlier message.
You mentioned the shell command './perl installperl' but did
not indicate whether you had typed 'make install'. If you had
not done so then I would recommend that since it could set some
shell (as opposed to environment variables) that will assist
perl in running before its installation (the LIBPATH comes to mind,
although that should only play a role if you built with dynamic
loading turned on).
Another problem that crops up with installperl is the pod2man
process. You either have an nroff program in your $PATH or you
do not. The shell command:
whence nroff
will tell you whether or not you do. The pod2man conversion
on an EBCDIC machine such as z/OS is still inherently messy.
It may look a bit cleaner if you have an nroff utility. As far as I know
the only nroff that was ever ported to OS/390 was GNU groff, and it
had a few bugs when its output was run through the OE supplied
man program.
If pod2man is the trouble that you see beware that there may
be a make target other than install that avoids running pod2man.
Looking through the main Makefile should provide you with some
information on that. Also installperl might be made to avoid running
pod2man itself.
Peter Prymmer
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03/21/2002 06:51
PM Subject: perl-5.7.3 on omvs
Just curious,
Has anyone built perl-5.7.3 on OMVS? As I stated earlier, I'm getting an
infinite loop in './perl installperl'.
Ed
