Hi Andreas ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andreas Köhler" <andi5...@gmx.net> To: "Stephen Grant Brown" <sg_br...@mcmedia.com.au> Cc: "GNUCash Devel" <gnucash-devel@gnucash.org> Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 10:31 PM Subject: Re: Perl not found
> Hi Stephen, > > in your other mail you reported that MSYS DTK has been detected as > installed correctly. What is the output of "which perl" and what is "echo > $PATH", when run in the MSYS shell? Is there some other perl installation > in the PATH first? > Here is output of MSYS shell gnuc...@elshadai ~ $ which perl gnuc...@elshadai ~ $ perl --version sh: perl: command not found gnuc...@elshadai ~ $ echo $PATH .:/usr/local/bin:/mingw/bin:/bin:/c/WINDOWS/system32:/c/WINDOWS:/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem:/c/Program Files/Subversion/bin:/c/Program Files/TortoiseSVN/bin gnuc...@elshadai ~ $ > Also, check config.log in C:\soft\temp\autoconf-2.60, it may contain > additional data about what is "wrong" with your perl setup. > gnuc...@elshadai ~ $ cd /c/soft/temp/autoconf-2.60 sh: cd: /c/soft/temp/autoconf-2.60: No such file or directory gnuc...@elshadai ~ $ cd / gnuc...@elshadai / $ ls active-perl doc home mingw msys.bat readline tmp uninstall bin etc m.ico msys msys.ico regex tools gnuc...@elshadai / $ cd /c gnuc...@elshadai /c $ cd C:\soft\temp\autoconf-2.60 sh: cd: C:softtempautoconf-2.60: No such file or directory gnuc...@elshadai /c $ cd C:/soft/temp/autoconf-2.60 sh: cd: C:/soft/temp/autoconf-2.60: No such file or directory $ gnuc...@elshadai /c $ mount C:\DOCUME~1\GNUCash\LOCALS~1\Temp on /tmp type user (binmode,noumount) C:\soft\msys\mingw on /mingw type user (binmode) C:\soft\msys\bin on /usr/bin type user (binmode,cygexec,noumount) C:\soft\msys\bin on /bin type user (binmode,cygexec,noumount) C:\soft\msys on / type user (binmode,noumount) C:\soft\msys on /usr type user (binmode,noumount) a: on /a type user (binmode,noumount) c: on /c type user (binmode,noumount) d: on /d type user (binmode,noumount) z: on /z type user (binmode,noumount) gnuc...@elshadai /c $ gnuc...@elshadai /c/soft/msys/tmp/autoconf-2.60 $ less config.log This file contains any messages produced by compilers while running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake. It was created by GNU Autoconf configure 2.60, which was generated by GNU Autoconf 2.60. Invocation command line was $ ./configure --prefix=/C/soft/msys/autotools ## --------- ## ## Platform. ## ## --------- ## hostname = Elshadai uname -m = i686 uname -r = 1.0.10(0.46/3/2) uname -s = MINGW32_NT-5.1 uname -v = 2004-03-15 07:17 /usr/bin/uname -p = unknown /bin/uname -X = unknown /bin/arch = unknown /usr/bin/arch -k = unknown /usr/convex/getsysinfo = unknown /usr/bin/hostinfo = unknown /bin/machine = unknown /usr/bin/oslevel = unknown /bin/universe = unknown PATH: /C/soft/msys/autotools/bin PATH: /C/soft/msys/readline/bin PATH: /C/soft/msys/regex/bin PATH: /C/soft/msys/tools/bin PATH: . PATH: /usr/local/bin PATH: /mingw/bin PATH: /bin PATH: /c/WINDOWS/system32 PATH: /c/WINDOWS PATH: /c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem PATH: /c/Program Files/Subversion/bin PATH: /c/Program Files/TortoiseSVN/bin ## ----------- ## ## Core tests. ## ## ----------- ## configure:1708: checking for a BSD-compatible install configure:1764: result: /bin/install -c configure:1775: checking whether build environment is sane configure:1818: result: yes configure:1883: checking for gawk configure:1899: found /bin/gawk configure:1910: result: gawk configure:1921: checking whether make sets $(MAKE) configure:1942: result: yes configure:2150: checking whether /bin/sh -n is known to work configure:2169: result: yes configure:2181: checking for expr configure:2199: found /bin/expr configure:2211: result: /bin/expr configure:2233: checking for gm4 configure:2266: result: no configure:2233: checking for gnum4 configure:2266: result: no configure:2233: checking for m4 configure:2251: found /bin/m4 configure:2263: result: /bin/m4 configure:2275: checking whether m4 supports frozen files configure:2287: result: yes configure:2313: checking for perl configure:2344: result: no configure:2353: error: perl is not found ## ---------------- ## ## Cache variables. ## ## ---------------- ## Hope this helps. Stephen Grant Brown > Ciao, > -- andi5 > > Stephen Grant Brown schrieb: >> Hi All. >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andreas Köhler" <andi5...@gmx.net> >> To: "Stephen Grant Brown" <sg_br...@mcmedia.com.au> >> Cc: "GNUCash Devel" <gnucash-devel@gnucash.org> >> Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 12:36 PM >> Subject: Re: Perl not found >> >> >>> Hi Stephen, >>> >>> Stephen Grant Brown schrieb: >>>> Hi All, >>>> >>>> In running install.sh I got the following >>>> >>>> ... >>>> ############################################################ >>>> ### Autotools >>>> ############################################################ >>>> Extracting autoconf-2.60.tar.bz2 ... done >>>> Extracting automake-1.9.6.tar.bz2 ... done >>>> building autoconf... >>>> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/install -c >>>> checking whether build environment is sane... yes >>>> checking for gawk... gawk >>>> checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes >>>> checking whether /bin/sh -n is known to work... yes >>>> checking for expr... /bin/expr >>>> checking for gm4... no >>>> checking for gnum4... no >>>> checking for m4... /bin/m4 >>>> checking whether m4 supports frozen files... yes >>>> checking for perl... no >>>> configure: error: perl is not found >>>> .... >>>> >>>> How do I install perl? >>> >>> I cannot check that from here (will be back home in about a week), but >>> perl should be part of the MSYS DTK package which is installed before >>> the autotools (section "MSYS DTK", function inst_dtk()). Do you have >>> cygwin installed in parallel or some other strange setup? >> >> No, I do not have cygwin installed or some other strange setup. I use >> this computer exclusively to compile gnucash. I have Windows XP >> installed. I use outlook express to get mail. As per my previous >> postings, I deleted c:/soft via windows explorer and followed the >> instructions in the README in the Packaaging dir downloaded from SVN and >> Instructions for an (almost) automated build. >> >>> >>> BTW, we also unpack ActivePerl, but only for intltool :-) >>> >>> Ciao, >>> -- andi5 >>> >> >> Yours Sincerely Stephen Grant Brown > > _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel