Re: How To Downgrade Perl on Ubuntu

For me, the <command-line> lines kept getting regenerated in the file x2p/makefile every time I ran make. I had to add perl -i~ -nle 'print unless /<command-line>/' makefile x2p/makefile to the top level Makefile itself before it descended into x2p.

translators:    miniperl$(EXE_EXT) $(CONFIGPM) FORCE
        perl -i~ -nle 'print unless /<command-line>/' x2p/makefile
        @echo " "; echo "       Making x2p stuff"; cd x2p; $(LDLIBPTH)
+ $(MAKE) all
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Thanks, Rahul

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Re^2: How To Downgrade Perl on Ubuntu by Anonymous Monk on Jan 16, 2013 at 17:03 UTC
I tried this and hit all these problems plus a new one: for some reason it failed to link with the maths library (so you get undefined symbols sin, cos etc). So I cut and pasted the failed line in the shell and added -lm at the end (cos I couldn't be bothered to fix the make file or configure script).	[reply]