compiling gnucash on windows, configure: error: perl is not found

[chikeo]

Hello,

I have run into about two more errors.
It has to do with some missing path and not identifying the
right version of m4.

I queried the version of m4 from the MSYS console and it seems ok. It is GNU
M4 1.4.7.

Please find the the log inlined below.


Build Starting at Thu Jan 13 20:21:31 WCAST 2011

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###  Wget
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already installed.  skipping.

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###  MSYS DTK
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msys dtk already installed.  skipping.

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###  Unzip
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unzip already installed.  skipping.

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###  MinGW
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mingw already installed.  skipping.

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###  RegEx
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regex already installed.  skipping.

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###  Readline
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readline already installed.  skipping.

############################################################
###  ActivePerl (intltool)
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ActivePerl already installed.  skipping.

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###  MinGW-Utils
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mingw-utils already installed.  skipping.

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###  Autotools
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Extracting autoconf-2.63.tar.bz2 ... done
Extracting automake-1.10.2.tar.bz2 ... done
building autoconf...
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
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 GNU M4 that supports accurate traces... /bin/m4
checking how m4 supports trace files... --debugfile
checking for perl... /c/soft/active-perl/ActivePerl/perl/bin/perl
checking for emacs... no
checking for xemacs... no
checking for emacs... no
checking where .elc files should go... ${datadir}/emacs/site-lisp
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed
checking whether make is case sensitive... yes
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating tests/Makefile
config.status: creating tests/atlocal
config.status: creating man/Makefile
config.status: creating lib/emacs/Makefile
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating doc/Makefile
config.status: creating lib/Makefile
config.status: creating lib/Autom4te/Makefile
config.status: creating lib/autoscan/Makefile
config.status: creating lib/m4sugar/Makefile
config.status: creating lib/autoconf/Makefile
config.status: creating lib/autotest/Makefile
config.status: creating bin/Makefile
config.status: executing tests/atconfig commands
make  all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/c/soft/tmp/autoconf-2.63'
Making all in bin
make[2]: Entering directory `/c/soft/tmp/autoconf-2.63/bin'
rm -f autom4te autom4te.tmp
srcdir=''; \
  test -f ./autom4te.in || srcdir=./; \
  sed -e 's|@SHELL[@]|/bin/sh|g' -e
's|@PERL[@]|/c/soft/active-perl/ActivePerl/perl/bin/perl|g' -e
's|@bindir[@]|/c/soft/autotools/bin|g' -e
's|@datadir[@]|/c/soft/autotools/share/autoconf|g' -e
's|@prefix[@]|/c/soft/autotools|g' -e 's|@autoconf-name[@]|'`echo autoconf |
sed 's,x,x,'`'|g' -e 's|@autoheader-name[@]|'`echo autoheader | sed
's,x,x,'`'|g' -e 's|@autom4te-name[@]|'`echo autom4te | sed 's,x,x,'`'|g' -e
's|@M4[@]|/bin/m4|g' -e 's|@M4_DEBUGFILE[@]|--debugfile|g' -e
's|@AWK[@]|gawk|g' -e 's|@RELEASE_YEAR[@]|'`sed
's/^\([0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]\).*/\1/;q' ../ChangeLog`'|g' -e
's|@VERSION[@]|2.63|g' -e 's|@PACKAGE_NAME[@]|GNU Autoconf|g' -e
's|@configure_input[@]|Generated from autom4te.in; do not edit by hand.|g'
${srcdir}autom4te.in >autom4te.tmp
chmod +x autom4te.tmp
chmod a-w autom4te.tmp
mv autom4te.tmp autom4te
autom4te_perllibdir='..'/lib AUTOM4TE_CFG='../lib/autom4te.cfg'        
../bin/autom4te -B '..'/lib -B '..'/lib         --language M4sh --cache ''
--melt ./autoconf.as -o autoconf.in
make[2]: Leaving directory `/c/soft/tmp/autoconf-2.63/bin'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/c/soft/tmp/autoconf-2.63'

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