Yikes! Wisdom and Common Sense.

You're absolutely right. The first time I ran make I ran out of room. I then ran make clean and just as I was about to move the perl-5.24.3 directory to another filesystem with much more room - believe it or not - my power went out.

The next day I completed the relocation. I reran Configure and then make and that's when I started getting the No Makefile errors. My (apparently naive) assumption was that running make clean brought me back to the point just before I ran Configure the first time. Anyway, I've since downloaded the tarball again and this time make fails much earlier, which surprises me. I should mention that while the Makefiles were 0 bytes other files in the same directory were the same size as the files I subsequently downloaded from CPAN as modules. 

Writing Makefile for Encode::JP
Generating a Unix-style Makefile
Writing Makefile for Encode::KR
Generating a Unix-style Makefile
Writing Makefile for Encode::Symbol
Generating a Unix-style Makefile
Writing Makefile for Encode::TW
Generating a Unix-style Makefile
Writing Makefile for Encode::Unicode
Generating a Unix-style Makefile
Writing Makefile for Encode
make[1]: Entering directory '/backups/build/perl-5.24.3/cpan/Encode'
make: Not a recognized flag: w
usage: make [-einqrst] [-k|-S] [-d[A|adg[1|2]mstv]] [-D variable] [-f 
+makefile] [-j [jobs]] [variable=value ...] [target ...]
make[1]: *** [Makefile:643: subdirs] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/backups/build/perl-5.24.3/cpan/Encode'
make[1]: Entering directory '/backups/build/perl-5.24.3/cpan/Encode'
make: Not a recognized flag: w
usage: make [-einqrst] [-k|-S] [-d[A|adg[1|2]mstv]] [-D variable] [-f 
+makefile] [-j [jobs]] [variable=value ...] [target ...]
make[1]: *** [Makefile:643: subdirs] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/backups/build/perl-5.24.3/cpan/Encode'
Unsuccessful make(cpan/Encode): code=512 at make_ext.pl line 569.
make: *** [makefile:620: lib/auto/Encode/Encode.so] Error 25

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line 643 of ./cpan/Encode/Makefile looks like this:

 +636  # --- MakeMaker subdirs section:
 +637
 +638  # The default clean, realclean and test targets in this Makefil
+e
 +639  # have automatically been given entries for each subdir.
 +640
 +641
 +642  subdirs ::
 +643      $(NOECHO) cd Byte && $(MAKE) $(USEMAKEFILE) $(FIRST_MAKEFIL
+E) all $(PASTHRU)
 +644
 +645  subdirs ::
 +646      $(NOECHO) cd CN && $(MAKE) $(USEMAKEFILE) $(FIRST_MAKEFILE)
+ all $(PASTHRU)
 +647
 +648  subdirs ::
 +649      $(NOECHO) cd EBCDIC && $(MAKE) $(USEMAKEFILE) $(FIRST_MAKEF
+ILE) all $(PASTHRU)
 +650
 +651  subdirs ::
 +652      $(NOECHO) cd JP && $(MAKE) $(USEMAKEFILE) $(FIRST_MAKEFILE)
+ all $(PASTHRU)
 +653
 +654  subdirs ::
 +655      $(NOECHO) cd KR && $(MAKE) $(USEMAKEFILE) $(FIRST_MAKEFILE)
+ all $(PASTHRU)

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If this helps with the variable values:

     +8  #
    +9  #   MakeMaker ARGV: (q[INSTALLDIRS=perl], q[INSTALLMAN1DIR=non
+e], q[INSTALLMAN3DIR=none], q[PERL_CORE=1], q[LIBPERL_A=libper
l.a], q[LINKTYPE=dynamic])

....
   +83  PREFIX = $(PERLPREFIX)
   +84  PERLPREFIX = /opt/freeware
.......

 +127  FIRST_MAKEFILE = Makefile
.....

 +156  MAKE = make
...........

  +303  # --- MakeMaker tools_other section:
  +304  SHELL = /bin/sh
  +305  CHMOD = chmod
  +306  CP = cp
  +307  MV = mv
  +308  NOOP = $(TRUE)
  +309  NOECHO = @

.....
  +330  USEMAKEFILE = -f

....
  +365  # --- MakeMaker cflags section:
  +366
  +367  CCFLAGS = -D_THREAD_SAFE -D_ALL_SOURCE -D_ANSI_C_SOURCE -D_POS
+IX_SOURCE -DUSE_NATIVE_DLOPEN -DNEED_PTHREAD_INIT -fwrapv -fno
-strict-aliasing -pipe -maix64 -DUSE_64_BIT_ALL -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -W
+all -Werror=declaration-after-statement -Wextra -Wc++-compat -
Wwrite-strings
  +368  OPTIMIZE = -O
  +369  PERLTYPE =
  +370  MPOLLUTE =
  +371

.....
  +389  # --- MakeMaker pasthru section:
  +390
  +391  PASTHRU = LIBPERL_A="$(LIBPERL_A)"\
  +392      LINKTYPE="$(LINKTYPE)"\
  +393      OPTIMIZE="$(OPTIMIZE)"\
  +394      PREFIX="$(PREFIX)"\
  +395      PASTHRU_INC="$(PASTHRU_INC)"

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To the extent I understand what is failing, it looks like make is being passed a flag 'w' that it doesn't understand, but I don't see where that is happening or where the 'w' flag is coming from. I apologize for all the detail, but I simply don't know enough to distinguish the crap from the gold.

In reply to Re^2: perl-5.24.3 build woes by 2pipes
in thread perl-5.24.3 build woes by 2pipes

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