Re: [perl #60678] Configure.pl manifest problem on Win32

Will Coleda

You can drop this thread if you like.  This is a waste of your time.  What I
need to do is to find someone who is building parrot with XP, Cygwin or
mingw -- who has been through most of what I'm going to encounter.

Thank you


On 11/20/08, Will Coleda via RT <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 1:09 PM, via RT Peter Schwenn
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > # New Ticket Created by  Peter Schwenn
> > # Please include the string:  [perl #60678]
> > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue.
> > # <URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=60678 >
> >
> >
> > In attempting to build Parrot (to run Rakudo) on Win32,in a Dos box, from
> > the root dir of Parrot,
> >    perl Configure.pl
> > fails because NONE of the required files of the manifest are present
> > (according to Configure.pl's output).  But ALL of the files are present
> in
> > their appointed places.  This seems to be a problem with backslash as a
> > separator for filenames.  Is there a workaround or flag?
> >
> >  (I am NOT using mingw or cygwind, just plain XP SP1.  I expect to use
> gcc
> > with nmake v1.8 when I get by this problem.)
> >
> > Thank you     Peter Schwenn
> >
>
> What version of perl are you using? (perl -V)
>
> --
> Will "Coke" Coleda
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