Scott T. Hildreth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >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.
Or to put it another way, when building modules to run with ActivePerl you must use nmake and not cygwin make (nor MSYS make). ActivePerl's MakeMaker writes Makefiles for nmake. So pathnames have \ not / and drive letters and possibly leading spaces instead of tabs, and special nmake macros to work round command line length issues etc. etc. I believe you can download nmake.exe from somewhere. A relatively minor tweak to Config.pm will cause ActivePerl to write Makefiles for 'dmake', but we don't yet have MakeMaker support for either GNU make on Win32 (either cygwin's or MinGW one), nor the "make" that comes with Borland. > > >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?
