dear perlmonks,

this poor pilgrim is at present travailing with the task of building perl on a Win2k box. why not just install ActivePerl or some other binary distro you might ask? the problem with distributions is always the same: the lack of ready-made packages for stuff one needs. - in my particular case, DBD::Sybase and DBD::Oracle.

so the goal is to have a source-based installation that allows me to /perl -MCPAN -e "install whatever"/

as per the instuctions in the perl source distribution, I've compiled and installed perl. when running the tests some stuff failed but in general everything seems to work.

however I'm now trying to build/install DBI. I have MSYS installed and used dmake to make perl.

the first thing that happens is I get:

cpan> install DBI
Running install for module DBI
Running make for T/TI/TIMB/DBI-1.46.tar.gz
LWP not available
Fetching with Net::FTP:
  ftp://ftp.dc.aleron.net/pub/CPAN/authors/id/T/TI/TIMB/DBI-1.46.tar.g
+z
CPAN: Digest::MD5 loaded ok
LWP not available
Fetching with Net::FTP:
  ftp://ftp.dc.aleron.net/pub/CPAN/authors/id/T/TI/TIMB/CHECKSUMS
Checksum for C:\msys\1.0\home\ecalder\.cpan\sources\authors\id\T\TI\TI
+MB\DBI-1.46.tar.gz ok
Scanning cache C:\msys\1.0\home\ecalder\.cpan\build for sizes
DBI-1.46/
DBI-1.46/Driver_xst.h
DBI-1.46/DBI.xs
/usr/bin/tar: Skipping to next header

gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--crc error
/usr/bin/tar: 352 garbage bytes ignored at end of archive
/usr/bin/tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
Uncompressed C:\msys\1.0\home\ecalder\.cpan\sources\authors\id\T\TI\TI
+MB\DBI-1.46.tar.gz successfully
Using Tar:C:\msys\1.0\bin\tar.EXE xvf C:\msys\1.0\home\ecalder\.cpan\s
+ources\authors\id\T\TI\TIMB\DBI-1.46.tar:
/usr/bin/tar: C\:\\msys\\1.0\\home\\ecalder\\.cpan\\sources\\authors\\
+id\\T\\TI\\TIMB\\DBI-1.46.tar: Cannot open: I/O error
/usr/bin/tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
Couldn't untar C:\msys\1.0\home\ecalder\.cpan\sources\authors\id\T\TI\
+TIMB\DBI-1.46.tar
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however, I can do soemthing like:

# tar xzvf DBI-1.46.tar.gz
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and that works... since that worked I cd into the directory and do /perl Makefile.PL/ and then /make/, which results in:

/bin/sh.exe: C:perlbinperl.exe: command not found
make: *** [blib\lib\DBI\Changes.pm] Error 127
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also /dmake/ yields:

dmake.exe:  Error -- \bin\sh: No such file or directory
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your wisdom is most valued.

- ekkis

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