From bryan@bway.net

I got this message when trying to compile perl 5.6.0

As it says in 'INSTALL', I typed​:

  rm -f config.sh Policy.sh
  sh Configure

I'm running FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE

If you would like more information, don't hesitate to respond.

~bryan

"Whatever interests, is interesting."
- William Hazlitt

From @tobez

On Sat, Apr 08, 2000 at 01​:55​:08AM -0400, bryan wrote​:

I got this message when trying to compile perl 5.6.0

As it says in 'INSTALL', I typed​:

    rm \-f config\.sh Policy\.sh
    sh Configure

I'm running FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE

If you would like more information, don't hesitate to respond.

Delete everything, untar the distribution, do not delete any files and
run Configure again.

Cheers,

From [Unknown Contact. See original ticket]

At 01​:55 -0400 2000-04-08, bryan wrote​:

I got this message when trying to compile perl 5.6.0

I'm running FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE

Well, assuming you're running Intel hardware, that's on our list of
systems on which 5.6.0. has successfully been built. So maybe your
package is incomplete. Try deleting what you've got, then reload the
source distribution from the archive and try again. If you get the
same result, try downloading again -- the definitive copy is at
<http​://www.cpan.org/src/stable.tar.gz> and has a length of 5,443,601
bytes -- and try a third time. If _that_ still results in the same
behaviour, try this (Bourne shell) one-liner, which will tell you
what's missing​:

awk '{print $1}' MANIFEST | \
while read f; do test -e $f || echo $f is missing; done

Then maybe you can work out why. If you have to go to these lengths,
let us know what you find​: we have had reports of an old tar
program losing a particular file on newer Sun systems​: maybe you're
seeing something similar.

From [Unknown Contact. See original ticket]

I re-downloaded another copy, untarred it and ran 'sh Configure', and it
worked just fine this time.

Maybe it was a stray pixel or something.
I probably did something dumb.

=)

Thanks for your help!

~bryan

"I can't complain, but sometimes I still do."
- Joe Walsh

On Sun, 9 Apr 2000, Dominic Dunlop wrote​:

Date​: Sun, 9 Apr 2000 09​:47​:58 +0200
From​: Dominic Dunlop <domo@​computer.org>
To​: bryan@​bway.net
Cc​: perl5-porters@​perl.org
Subject​: Re​: [ID 20000407.007] THIS PACKAGE SEEMS TO BE INCOMPLETE.

At 01​:55 -0400 2000-04-08, bryan wrote​:

I got this message when trying to compile perl 5.6.0

I'm running FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE

Well, assuming you're running Intel hardware, that's on our list of
systems on which 5.6.0. has successfully been built. So maybe your
package is incomplete. Try deleting what you've got, then reload the
source distribution from the archive and try again. If you get the
same result, try downloading again -- the definitive copy is at
<http​://www.cpan.org/src/stable.tar.gz> and has a length of 5,443,601
bytes -- and try a third time. If _that_ still results in the same
behaviour, try this (Bourne shell) one-liner, which will tell you
what's missing​:

awk '{print $1}' MANIFEST | \
while read f; do test -e $f || echo $f is missing; done

Then maybe you can work out why. If you have to go to these lengths,
let us know what you find​: we have had reports of an old tar
program losing a particular file on newer Sun systems​: maybe you're
seeing something similar.
--
Dominic Dunlop