Perl not found

[Stephen Grant Brown]

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