As posted earlier, the Active State Perl runs under the Windows environment and the cygwin Perl is compiled under the cygwin "unix" type environment. So if you are compiling modules under cygwin, you need to use the cygwin compiled perl.
On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 09:18, Doug Brann wrote: > Dear newsgroup, > > I am running perl Active State 5.8.3 and cygwin. I can't seem to build any perl > modules (even the ones off CPAN) > > I type: > perl Makefile.PL > and all is ok, > > then I type: > make test > > and I get the error: > Makefile:332: *** multiple target patterns. Stop. > > What's going on?