Perl not found
Stephen Grant Brown
sg_brown at mcmedia.com.au
Sun Jan 4 22:41:59 EST 2009
Hi Andreas
----- 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: Saturday, January 03, 2009 10:31 PM
Subject: Re: Perl not found
> 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?
>
Here is output of MSYS shell
GNUCash at ELSHADAI ~
$ which perl
GNUCash at ELSHADAI ~
$ perl --version
sh: perl: command not found
GNUCash at ELSHADAI ~
$ echo $PATH
.:/usr/local/bin:/mingw/bin:/bin:/c/WINDOWS/system32:/c/WINDOWS:/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem:/c/Program
Files/Subversion/bin:/c/Program Files/TortoiseSVN/bin
GNUCash at ELSHADAI ~
$
> Also, check config.log in C:\soft\temp\autoconf-2.60, it may contain
> additional data about what is "wrong" with your perl setup.
>
GNUCash at ELSHADAI ~
$ cd /c/soft/temp/autoconf-2.60
sh: cd: /c/soft/temp/autoconf-2.60: No such file or directory
GNUCash at ELSHADAI ~
$ cd /
GNUCash at ELSHADAI /
$ ls
active-perl doc home mingw msys.bat readline tmp uninstall
bin etc m.ico msys msys.ico regex tools
GNUCash at ELSHADAI /
$ cd /c
GNUCash at ELSHADAI /c
$ cd C:\soft\temp\autoconf-2.60
sh: cd: C:softtempautoconf-2.60: No such file or directory
GNUCash at ELSHADAI /c
$ cd C:/soft/temp/autoconf-2.60
sh: cd: C:/soft/temp/autoconf-2.60: No such file or directory
$
GNUCash at ELSHADAI /c
$ mount
C:\DOCUME~1\GNUCash\LOCALS~1\Temp on /tmp type user (binmode,noumount)
C:\soft\msys\mingw on /mingw type user (binmode)
C:\soft\msys\bin on /usr/bin type user (binmode,cygexec,noumount)
C:\soft\msys\bin on /bin type user (binmode,cygexec,noumount)
C:\soft\msys on / type user (binmode,noumount)
C:\soft\msys on /usr type user (binmode,noumount)
a: on /a type user (binmode,noumount)
c: on /c type user (binmode,noumount)
d: on /d type user (binmode,noumount)
z: on /z type user (binmode,noumount)
GNUCash at ELSHADAI /c
$
GNUCash at ELSHADAI /c/soft/msys/tmp/autoconf-2.60
$ less config.log
This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.
It was created by GNU Autoconf configure 2.60, which was
generated by GNU Autoconf 2.60. Invocation command line was
$ ./configure --prefix=/C/soft/msys/autotools
## --------- ##
## Platform. ##
## --------- ##
hostname = Elshadai
uname -m = i686
uname -r = 1.0.10(0.46/3/2)
uname -s = MINGW32_NT-5.1
uname -v = 2004-03-15 07:17
/usr/bin/uname -p = unknown
/bin/uname -X = unknown
/bin/arch = unknown
/usr/bin/arch -k = unknown
/usr/convex/getsysinfo = unknown
/usr/bin/hostinfo = unknown
/bin/machine = unknown
/usr/bin/oslevel = unknown
/bin/universe = unknown
PATH: /C/soft/msys/autotools/bin
PATH: /C/soft/msys/readline/bin
PATH: /C/soft/msys/regex/bin
PATH: /C/soft/msys/tools/bin
PATH: .
PATH: /usr/local/bin
PATH: /mingw/bin
PATH: /bin
PATH: /c/WINDOWS/system32
PATH: /c/WINDOWS
PATH: /c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem
PATH: /c/Program Files/Subversion/bin
PATH: /c/Program Files/TortoiseSVN/bin
## ----------- ##
## Core tests. ##
## ----------- ##
configure:1708: checking for a BSD-compatible install
configure:1764: result: /bin/install -c
configure:1775: checking whether build environment is sane
configure:1818: result: yes
configure:1883: checking for gawk
configure:1899: found /bin/gawk
configure:1910: result: gawk
configure:1921: checking whether make sets $(MAKE)
configure:1942: result: yes
configure:2150: checking whether /bin/sh -n is known to work
configure:2169: result: yes
configure:2181: checking for expr
configure:2199: found /bin/expr
configure:2211: result: /bin/expr
configure:2233: checking for gm4
configure:2266: result: no
configure:2233: checking for gnum4
configure:2266: result: no
configure:2233: checking for m4
configure:2251: found /bin/m4
configure:2263: result: /bin/m4
configure:2275: checking whether m4 supports frozen files
configure:2287: result: yes
configure:2313: checking for perl
configure:2344: result: no
configure:2353: error: perl is not found
## ---------------- ##
## Cache variables. ##
## ---------------- ##
Hope this helps.
Stephen Grant Brown
> 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
>
>
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