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Re: Building perl-5.10.0



----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Persico" <matthew.persico@gmail.com>
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Well after a bit of googling around, the answer is this:

1) In a Windows cmd command prompt, cd where your cygwin lives - mine
is at c:\opt\cygwin

Mine is at C:\cygwin.


2) cd ..

I first ran 'attrib cygwin' to see what was already there:


C:\>attrib cygwin
            C:\cygwin

3) attrib -r cywgin - that removed the read-only bit. Don't try it in
Windows Explorer; it does not "stick"

I then ran 'attrib -r cygwin' (even though it doesn't appear to be readonly to begin with).


4) Then in a Cygwin window, cd /
5) chmod 777 .

That errors out as follows:


Rob@desktop2 /
$ chmod 777 .
chmod: changing permissions of `.': Permission denied

After all that I get:

Rob@desktop2 /
$ ls -alrt
total 165
dr-xr-xr-x   1     0 root       0 Jan  1  1970 cygdrive
dr-xr-xr-x   1 Rob   None       0 Dec  1  2006 proc
d---r-x---+  7 admin Users      0 Mar 12 12:37 var
d---r-x---+  2 admin Users      0 Mar 12 12:37 dev
d---r-x---+  2 admin Users      0 Mar 12 12:37 tmp
----r-x---+  1 admin Users     57 Mar 12 12:38 Cygwin.bat
drwxrwxrwx+  3 Rob   None       0 Mar 12 12:38 home
d---r-x---+ 12 admin Users   4096 Mar 12 12:38 ..
d---r-x---+ 12 admin Users   4096 Mar 12 12:38 .
d---r-x---+ 11 admin Users   4096 Mar 12 12:50 etc
d---r-x---+ 11 admin Users  12288 Mar 12 12:51 lib
d---r-x---+ 16 admin Users   4096 Mar 12 12:51 usr
d---r-x---+  2 admin Users 131072 Mar 15 21:20 bin
----r-x---+  1 admin Users   7022 Mar 15 21:20 Cygwin.ico

and running 'make' terminates as before.

This is a fairly new installation of Cygwin, btw. (I stuffed up the old one trying to install rsync and had to delete the lot.) So there could be some additional stuff here that needs sorting out. I have, however, already built some perl extensions using the 5.8.8 build that was installed when I created this fresh build of Cygwin.

And the fact that I can build 5.8.8 from source, but not 5.10.0 leads me to wonder whether this is instead a query that should be raised on p5p ?

Thanks for the reply, Matthew ... appreciated.

Cheers,
Rob




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