Fellow Monks,

I've installed cygwin on my pc, it comes with perl v5.8.6. I wanted to also install ptkdb to help with debugging any perl scripts. So I thought I'd use cpan to do this, but I hit a dependency of needing to have TK installed first. This gave me a couple of errors, identical to those from this recent post Trouble installing TK under cygwin. The question didn't really get answered there (except to say use activestate instead) 
make[1]: *** [Xlib.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/e/temp/Tk-804.027/Xlib'
make: *** [subdirs] Error 2

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Any ideas? Thanks,
Jonathan

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In reply to tk installation problem on cygwin by Anonymous Monk

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