Re: Problems building perl on AIX

There is a script created on the fly when you are running Perl's Configure, in current dir, whose purpose is to read your answer. The script is called myread and its source is inside Configure file. First make sure that this script terminates. You can either run it in another shell while Configure hangs or add debugging messages to Configure. Script "myread" attempts to start a shell using the contents of a variable in Configure named $startsh. Check that it is a valid shebang for your system (that would be the first line in file myread).

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Re^2: Problems building perl on AIX by Anonymous Monk on Mar 07, 2019 at 13:33 UTC
Thank you very much for your reply. I've noticed this script in a UU sub dir and was already assuming that it could be the problem. I've seen some other script there which seem to be created in a later phase, like gettext or so, which were kind of hanging, too. I've tried to execute the myread script manually now but that seems to look good `# rp='Do you really want to continue?' # dflt='n' # . UU/myread 4>&1 Do you really want to continue? [n] (hit return) # (script has terminated)` [download]	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^2: Problems building perl on AIX
by Anonymous Monk on Mar 07, 2019 at 13:33 UTC

Thank you very much for your reply. I've noticed this script in a UU sub dir and was already assuming that it could be the problem. I've seen some other script there which seem to be created in a later phase, like gettext or so, which were kind of hanging, too.

I've tried to execute the myread script manually now but that seems to look good

# rp='Do you really want to continue?'        
# dflt='n'                                    
# . UU/myread 4>&1                    
Do you really want to continue? [n] 
(hit return)
#
(script has terminated)
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