Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2005 00:05:22 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [UnixOS2_Archive] No. 620 ************************************************** Friday 30 September 2005 Number 620 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 Re: Perl detection from configure : Dave Yeo" 2 Re: Perl detection from configure : Paul Smedley 3 Re: Perl detection from configure : Yuri Dario" 1 Re: Perl detection from configure : John Poltorak **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 07:21:20 -0800 From: "Dave Yeo" Subject: Re: Perl detection from configure On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 20:59:57 +0930, Paul Smedley wrote: >Hi All, >I'm looking at Courier - http://www.courier-mta.org/ > >But am having troubles when running ./configure > >I get: >checking for perl5... no >checking for perl... no >configure: error: perl not found - please install perl > >Of course, Perl 5.8 _is_ installed :( Sometimes its easier to just rerun autoconf. This is especially true with configure scripts made with older versions such as 2.13 Dave **= Email 2 ==========================** Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 00:55:18 +0930 From: Paul Smedley Subject: Re: Perl detection from configure Hi Guys, Dave Yeo wrote: > On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 20:59:57 +0930, Paul Smedley wrote: > >> Hi All, >> I'm looking at Courier - http://www.courier-mta.org/ >> >> But am having troubles when running ./configure >> >> I get: >> checking for perl5... no >> checking for perl... no >> configure: error: perl not found - please install perl >> >> Of course, Perl 5.8 _is_ installed :( > > Sometimes its easier to just rerun autoconf. This is especially true with configure scripts > made with older versions such as 2.13 configure had been run with 2.59 - hower re-reunning autoconf under os/2 and it now passes the perl test :) Cheers, Paul. **= Email 3 ==========================** Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 18:07:06 +0200 (CDT) From: "Yuri Dario" Subject: Re: Perl detection from configure Hi Paul, >configure: error: perl not found - please install perl look at config.log, you should see what the script ran (and why it failed). Bye, Yuri Dario /* * member of TeamOS/2 - Italy * http://www.os2power.com/yuri * http://www.teamos2.it */ **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 16:58:30 +0100 From: John Poltorak Subject: Re: Perl detection from configure On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 12:55:18AM +0930, Paul Smedley wrote: > Hi Guys, > > Dave Yeo wrote: > > On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 20:59:57 +0930, Paul Smedley wrote: > > > >> Hi All, > >> I'm looking at Courier - http://www.courier-mta.org/ > >> > >> But am having troubles when running ./configure > >> > >> I get: > >> checking for perl5... no > >> checking for perl... no > >> configure: error: perl not found - please install perl > >> > >> Of course, Perl 5.8 _is_ installed :( > > > > Sometimes its easier to just rerun autoconf. This is especially true with configure scripts > > made with older versions such as 2.13 > > configure had been run with 2.59 - hower re-reunning autoconf under os/2 > and it now passes the perl test :) That's because the perl test now looks for perl.exe. You should always run autoconf first to get an OS/2 compatible version of configure. > Cheers, > > Paul. -- John