Annoying * Annoying * Annoying
I have installed and reinstalled Perl 8.5 so many times and every time I try p.p.m I get this in return:
Panic: Can't find bfs section
Does anyone know a remedy for this and why is this happening?
below is the output of perl -V.
C:\Perl>perl -V
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 0) configuration:
Platform:
osname=MSWin32, osvers=4.0, archname=MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
uname=''
config_args='undef'
hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=undef
usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=define usemultip
+licity=define
useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
Compiler:
cc='cl', ccflags ='-nologo -Gf -W3 -MD -Zi -DNDEBUG -O1 -DWIN32 -D
+_CONSOLE -DNO_STRICT -DHAVE_DES_FCRYPT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPER
optimize='-MD -Zi -DNDEBUG -O1',
cppflags='-DWIN32'
ccversion='', gccversion='', gccosandvers=''
intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
d_longlong=undef, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=10
ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='__int64
+', lseeksize=8
alignbytes=8, prototype=define
Linker and Libraries:
ld='link', ldflags ='-nologo -nodefaultlib -debug -opt:ref,icf -l
+ibpath:"C:\Perl\lib\CORE" -machine:x86'
libpth="C:\Perl\lib\CORE"
libs= oldnames.lib kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool.lib
+ comdlg32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib oleaut32.lib netap
perllibs= oldnames.lib kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool
+.lib comdlg32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib oleaut32.lib n
libc=msvcrt.lib, so=dll, useshrplib=yes, libperl=perl58.lib
gnulibc_version='undef'
Dynamic Linking:
dlsrc=dl_win32.xs, dlext=dll, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags='-dll -nologo -nodefaultlib -debug -opt:
+ref,icf -libpath:"C:\Perl\lib\CORE" -machine:x86'
Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES PERL
+_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT PERL_IMPLICIT_SYS
Locally applied patches:
ActivePerl Build 806
Built under MSWin32
Compiled at Mar 31 2003 00:45:44
@INC:
C:/Perl/lib
C:/Perl/site/lib
.
C:\Perl>
Thanks