Re: Perl compilation on Windows with INST

Any idea how to have it working with INST_ARCH set?

I'm seeing the same as you. It's buggy.
I suspect that the escaping of $(ARCHNAME) is incorrect, and that the backslash needs to be removed:

INST_ARCH    := $(ARCHNAME)
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At least it will then build current blead (perl-5.31.7). But it seems to produce the same structure as a perl built without INST_ARCH.
So I then additionally tried supplying it with the archname that needs to be used for the particular build I was doing - ie ARCHNAME=MSWin32-x64-multi-thread But that just resulted in an installation whose top level directory structure was quite bizarre:

bin
binMSWin32-x64-multi-thread
html
lib
libMSWin32-x64-multi-thread
site
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and an empty @INC (as you noted).
So ... there's a bit to unravel, and the suggestion of building with dmake and makefile.mk looks the best short term option.

Cheers,
Rob

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Re^2: Perl compilation on Windows with INST_ARCH set fails by jcb (Parson) on Jan 25, 2020 at 01:00 UTC
Backslash does not escape variable expansion in GNU make; doubling the sigil does that ("`$${XYZ}`" reduces to "`${XYZ}`"). That backslash is a directory separator.	[reply]
Re^3: Perl compilation on Windows with INST_ARCH set fails by syphilis (Archbishop) on Jan 25, 2020 at 01:41 UTC
Backslash does not escape variable expansion in GNU make Heh ... at last I understand the reason that they're called "makefiles". (They're the "files" that "make" me look stupid ;-) Cheers, Rob	[reply]