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Sorry about a newbie question, but I can't find this anywhere. When I try and build perl in cygwin I get the following message. Sorry, I can't seem to locate the source dir for perl5. Please start Configure with an explicit path --i.e. /some/path/Configure. What am I doing wrong? Thanks
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Re: cygwin cannot find src tree when trying to compile perl
by ignatz (Vicar) on Mar 12, 2002 at 17:41 UTC
    Do you really have to build it? Why not use cygwin's setup application and have them do the work? You don't need to build it under cygwin. 
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Re: cygwin cannot find src tree when trying to compile perl
by rbc (Curate) on Mar 12, 2002 at 20:33 UTC
    What kind of windows OS are you running Cygwin on?
    I have cygwin on a NT4 and Win95 machines.
    On the Win95 machine cygwin didn't come with perl
    so I just used ActiveState perl.
    On the NT4 machine I didn't have to do nothing
    except click on cygiwn's setup link.
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        this is part of a larger software package where the current installation of perl will be unknown so I would like to include my own known version. To do this I need to compile my own version (there are also several architectures involved Hp10, nt, etc). Thanks
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Re: cygwin cannot find src tree when trying to compile perl
by Anonymous Monk on Mar 13, 2002 at 20:00 UTC
    I figured this out. I unpacked a version of perl compressed with zip and tried to use Cygwin. Didn't work. When I got a version tarred up and upacked it with Cygwin it worked like a champ. Must be a Unix/Windows file format problem Thanks for the help
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