RE: borland/gnu make & MakeMaker?

[Konovalov, Vadim Vladimirovich (Vadim)]

> From: Joshua b. Jore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> I'm trying to work through the xstut manpage and when I create a
> new, blank module with h2xs -A -n MyTest, add the hello world 
> bit, do perl
> 
> Makefile.PL it all works. When I exec make on Makefile I get
> 
> Borland make 5.2 from the 5.5 toolset
> Fatal makefile 782: No terminator specified for in-line file operator

gnu make is not used for building perl and extensions on Win32.
As stated in readme.win32, use dmake.exe for this purpose, or nmake.exe if MSVC is 
used.

More precisely, you should be in sync with info that "perl -V" outputs.


> GNU make for win32
> makefile:770: *** missing separator.  Stop.
> 
> So what's the deal here? Here's the relevant section of the 

different syntax.

Best wishes,
Vadim.