From r-kimber@dircon.co.uk

Further to my message of yesterday (below) I have discovered that my
D​:\TMP directory contains 51,000 small files "c######" that contain
copies of the messages that were written to screen. I thought there
was rather a lot of disk activity!!! That surely suggests some sort of
bug in the Configure. I can't believe that that is intended.

Regards,
-Richard Kimber.

On Tue, 11 Apr 2000 20​:50​:46 +0100 (BST), Richard Kimber wrote​:

Hi​:
I was trying to set up perl on my os/2 system and received the
following message​:

=======================
[D​:\utils\filebox\stable\perl-5.6.0]sh Configure -des -D
prefix=D​:/perllib
(I see you are using the Korn shell. Some ksh's blow up on Configure.,
mainly on older exotic systems. If yours does, try the Bourne shell
instead.)
Configure.​: Configure.[1001]​: sed​: No such file or directory
Configure.​: Configure.[1034]​: sed​: No such file or directory
Configure.​: Fatal Error​: I can't find a Bourne Shell anywhere.

Usually it's in /bin/sh. How did you even get this far?
Please contact me (Perl Maintainers) at perlbug@​perl.com and
we'll try to straighten this all out.

I have sh.exe in the D​:\bin directory, and I have sed.exe in D​:\gnu\bin
(along with the other utilities) both of which are in my path. As far
as I know I have all the prerequisites listed in the documentation,
which actually says I should have the Korn shell.

I then downloaded the Bourne shell (sh164-2.zip) and re-ran​:
sh Configure -des -D prefix=D​:/perllib

but I now have what seems like an infite loop with the same message
scrolling up​:

=======================
OOPS! You naughty creature! You didn't run Configure with sh!
I will attempt to remedy the situation by running sh for you...
true​: not found
true​: not found
ARGGGHHHH!!!!!

SCO csh still thinks true is false. Write to SCO today and tell them
that next
year Configure ought to "rm /bin/csh" unless they fix their blasted
shell. :-)

(Actually, Configure ought to just patch csh in place. Hmm. Hmmmmm.
All
we'd have to do is go in and swap the && and || tokens, wherever they
are.)

[End of diatribe. We now return you to your regularly scheduled
programming...]

I should appreciate some guidance on this.

- Richard Kimber.