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

[email protected] (Ron Blaschke)
Newsgroups perl.perl6.internals
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Will Coleda wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Will Coleda <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Peter Schwenn <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 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.
>> I often build with Strawberry Perl's toolkit on windows with no
>> problem, and we have several active windows developers; I tend to
>> build right out of the repository, though, and not off the releases.
>>
>> At first blush it sounds like the filenames got case-mangled when the
>> package was unzipped. How did you unpack the file?
>>
>> --
>> Will "Coke" Coleda
>>
> 
> As a data point, I just grabbed parrot-0.8.1-tar.gz from CPAN and was
> able to run Configure.pl with no issues using a recent Strawberry
> perl. I'm not seeing the case mangled filenames; they match up with
> what's in the MANIFEST for me.
> 
> Regards.

I second Will's examination.  trunk and the 0.8.1 release tarball
Configure just fine for me as well.  That's Windows XP SP3, Perl 5.10
and VC++ 9.

Ron
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