Thanks for the reply... here's the info as requested:

1) http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/perl-5.16.3.tar.gz

2) It's on my scratchpad. http://perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=1022869 In the first "section"

3) It's on my scratchpad. http://perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=1022869 In the second "section"; below the makefile contents. I didn't post the whole thing. Just the leadup to the failure.

Regarding archiving, I've tried to unpack the source with both WinZip and the unzip I have loaded from cygwin:

$ unzip -v

UnZip 6.00 of 20 April 2009, by Cygwin. Original by Info-ZIP.

Latest sources and executables are at ftp://ftp.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/ ; see ftp://ftp.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/UnZip.html for other sites.

Compiled with gcc 3.4.4 (cygming special, gdc 0.12, using dmd 0.125) for Unix (Cygwin) on Aug 4 2009.

UnZip special compilation options: ASM_CRC COPYRIGHT_CLEAN (PKZIP 0.9x unreducing method not supported) SET_DIR_ATTRIB SYMLINKS (symbolic links supported, if RTL and file system permit) TIMESTAMP UNIXBACKUP USE_EF_UT_TIME USE_UNSHRINK (PKZIP/Zip 1.x unshrinking method supported) USE_DEFLATE64 (PKZIP 4.x Deflate64(tm) supported) UNICODE_SUPPORT char coding: UTF-8 (handle UTF-8 paths) MBCS-support (multibyte character support, MB_CUR_MAX = 6) LARGE_FILE_SUPPORT (large files over 2 GiB supported) ZIP64_SUPPORT (archives using Zip64 for large files supported) USE_BZIP2 (PKZIP 4.6+, using bzip2 lib version 1.0.5, 10-Dec-2007) VMS_TEXT_CONV WILD_STOP_AT_DIR decryption, version 2.11 of 05 Jan 2007

UnZip and ZipInfo environment options: UNZIP: none UNZIPOPT: none ZIPINFO: none ZIPINFOOPT: none

Both programs used to extract tarball have given me the same results.

Thanks again for your help!

In reply to Re^4: Compile PERL from source on Windows by MGoBlue
in thread Compile PERL from source on Windows by MGoBlue

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