Perl not found

[Andreas Köhler]

Hi Stephen,

in your other mail you reported that MSYS DTK has been detected as 
installed correctly.  What is the output of "which perl" and what is 
"echo $PATH", when run in the MSYS shell?  Is there some other perl 
installation in the PATH first?

Also, check config.log in C:\soft\temp\autoconf-2.60, it may contain 
additional data about what is "wrong" with your perl setup.

Ciao,
-- andi5

Stephen Grant Brown schrieb:
> Hi All.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andreas Köhler" <andi5.py at gmx.net>
> To: "Stephen Grant Brown" <sg_brown at mcmedia.com.au>
> Cc: "GNUCash Devel" <gnucash-devel at gnucash.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 12:36 PM
> Subject: Re: Perl not found
> 
> 
>> Hi Stephen,
>>
>> Stephen Grant Brown schrieb:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> In running install.sh I got the following
>>>
>>> ...
>>> ############################################################
>>> ###  Autotools
>>> ############################################################
>>> Extracting autoconf-2.60.tar.bz2 ... done
>>> Extracting automake-1.9.6.tar.bz2 ... done
>>> building autoconf...
>>> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/install -c
>>> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
>>> checking for gawk... gawk
>>> checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
>>> checking whether /bin/sh -n is known to work... yes
>>> checking for expr... /bin/expr
>>> checking for gm4... no
>>> checking for gnum4... no
>>> checking for m4... /bin/m4
>>> checking whether m4 supports frozen files... yes
>>> checking for perl... no
>>> configure: error: perl is not found
>>> ....
>>>
>>> How do I install perl?
>>
>> I cannot check that from here (will be back home in about a week), but 
>> perl should be part of the MSYS DTK package which is installed before 
>> the autotools (section "MSYS DTK", function inst_dtk()).  Do you have 
>> cygwin installed in parallel or some other strange setup?
> 
> No, I do not have cygwin installed or some other strange setup.  I use 
> this computer exclusively to compile gnucash. I have Windows XP 
> installed.  I use outlook express to get mail. As per my previous 
> postings, I deleted c:/soft via windows explorer and followed the 
> instructions in the README in the Packaaging dir downloaded from SVN and 
> Instructions for an (almost) automated build.
> 
>>
>> BTW, we also unpack ActivePerl, but only for intltool :-)
>>
>> Ciao,
>> -- andi5
>>
> 
> Yours Sincerely Stephen Grant Brown