On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 16:47, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote: > 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. >
..or in more detail, all that stuff Nick wrote above. :-) > > > > > >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? >
