Thanks Gerrit, it worked much better! Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> Hallo Peter, > > Am 2001-12-11 um 22:35 schriebst du: > > >>I compiled perl and when I do "make test" I only get 96% okay- >>Searching the MLA I see that some people have gotten 99+% okay- is there >>something special I need to do to build perl under cygwin? I just did a >>configure -d to accept all the defaults. >> > > Which perl did you use? perl 5.6.1-2 that comes with cygwin 1.3.6-3 > There are some patches in the cygwin (perl-5.6.1) sources so it should > build with one or two failures. There is also a build script included > in the cygwin-perl sources in CYGWIN-PATCHES subdirectory. > This seems to work- I get a 100% okay message at the end (even though there are some failures) > Which Windows are you on? NT4.0 SP6a > FAT drives gives some more failures. I am using NTFS (and I am in a domain, John Peacock suggested that might help) > Which environment settings do you use, there are more failures on NT if > you don't use CYGWIN=ntsec . > CYGWIN=ntsec binmode tty > Bleadperl (perl-devel) builds today with two or three test failures but > may be fixed or some more tomorrow. > > Ciao, > > Gerrit P. Haase mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Your mouse has moved. Windows NT must be restarted for the change to take effect. Reboot now? [OK] -- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/