Re^3: Compile PERL from source on Windows

If you build from source regularly, do you mind sharing the secret sauce?

There is no secret sauce.

Look at Porting/pod_lib.pl

Look at pod/perldelta.pod

Compare what you have to what is online http://search.cpan.org/dist/perl-5.16.2/MANIFEST

    my @want =
        $contents =~ /perldelta - what is new for perl v(5)\.(\d+)\.(\
+d+)\n/;
    die "Can't extract version from $filename" unless @want;
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perldelta - what is new for perl v5.16.2
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There is no way for that to fail, unless perldelta is empty

Why is your perldelta empty?

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Re^4: Compile PERL from source on Windows by MGoBlue (Novice) on Mar 21, 2013 at 15:56 UTC
Hello... thanks for the reply! My perldelta.pod is not empty. In my either my extracted perldelta.pod and the manifest (http://search.cpan.org/src/RJBS/perl-5.16.3/pod/perldelta.pod). The files are the same. I do not see an entry which says: `perldelta - what is new for perl v5.16.3` [download] Rather, that line is found on the description page for that file. pod_lib.pl and the manifest (http://search.cpan.org/src/RJBS/perl-5.16.3/Porting/pod_lib.pl) are the same too.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: Compile PERL from source on Windows by Anonymous Monk on Mar 22, 2013 at 23:49 UTC
Hmm, here is a stupid idea, change \n in regex to `[\r\n]+`	[reply] [d/l]
Re^6: Compile PERL from source on Windows by MGoBlue (Novice) on Mar 25, 2013 at 17:32 UTC
That worked!!! That fixed the problem with pod_lib.pl. nmake test throws a fatal error on nmake test though. Here's where we start getting into my lack of experience though. I don't know what to do with these tests. Here's the output from the command line: Test Summary Report ------------------- porting/customized.t (Wstat +: 0 Tests: 13 Failed: 13) Failed tests: 1-13 porting/pod_rules.t (Wstat +: 0 Tests: 4 Failed: 3) Failed tests: 2-4 Parse errors: Bad plan. You planned 7 tests but ran 4. porting/regen.t (Wstat +: 0 Tests: 31 Failed: 25) Failed tests: 7-31 ../cpan/CGI/t/tmpdir.t (Wstat +: 0 Tests: 9 Failed: 0) TODO passed: 3-9 ../cpan/CGI/t/upload.t (Wstat +: 6400 Tes ts: 0 Failed: 0) Non-zero exit status: 25 Parse errors: No plan found in TAP output ../cpan/CGI/t/uploadInfo.t (Wstat +: 6400 Tes ts: 0 Failed: 0) Non-zero exit status: 25 Parse errors: No plan found in TAP output ../cpan/HTTP-Tiny/t/150_post_form.t (Wstat +: 1536 Tes ts: 12 Failed: 6) Failed tests: 2, 5, 8, 10-12 Non-zero exit status: 6 ../cpan/Time-HiRes/t/usleep.t (Wstat +: 768 Test s: 6 Failed: 3) Failed tests: 3-4, 6 Non-zero exit status: 3 ../cpan/podlators/t/text-encoding.t (Wstat +: 65280 Te sts: 1 Failed: 0) Non-zero exit status: 255 Parse errors: Bad plan. You planned 7 tests but ran 1. Files=2320, Tests=528185, 1690 wallclock secs (53.33 usr + 5.70 sys = + 59.03 CPU ) Result: FAIL NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '..\perl.exe' : return code '0x32' Stop. [download]	[reply] [d/l]