Thank you monks for your help so far. Taking the good advice from my last question, I am leaving 5.8, which was installed with the OS on the system and trying to install 5.005_03 along side it.

This is Red Hat Enterprise Linux v3.0 running kernel 2.4.21-9.EL. The compilers I think it trys to is one of these:
libgcc-3.2.3-24
gcc-3.2.3-24
...I think...when it asks what compiler to use, I take the default, which it displays as "cc".

The install I'm working from, I believe came from cpan some time ago. The tar ball was still on the old server, so I'm using that. The name to be exact is perl5.005_03.tar.gz.

I run sh Configure and take almost all the defaults, except that I want it installed in /usr/local/bin and not /usr/bin. That part seems to run without any errors that I can see.

It finishes and I run make and get the following error:

make: *** No rule to make target `<built-in>', needed by `miniperlmain.o'. Stop.

Any idea what might be wrong? I suspect I should be using an older or different compiler. I saved the output from running Configure and also have the config.sh file if that might be helpful.

Please help, I'm lost.

Thanks!

In reply to Compiling 5.005_03 by cybler

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