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

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

chikeo <chike_oji at yahoo.com> writes:

> 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
>
[snip]
> ############################################################
> ###  Autotools
> ############################################################
> Extracting autoconf-2.63.tar.bz2 ... done
> Extracting automake-1.10.2.tar.bz2 ... done
[snip]
> 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'

I see no errors here....

-derek

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