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diff --git a/cygwin32/build-instructions.charles-wilson b/cygwin32/build-instructions.charles-wilson deleted file mode 100644 index 93c718f0ed..0000000000 --- a/cygwin32/build-instructions.charles-wilson +++ /dev/null @@ -1,113 +0,0 @@ -This document is obsolete. Refer to README.cygwin32. - -DATE: 13 May 99 - -Here are a few hints for building perl with cygwin: - -(1) There have been some problems compiling with the default compiler -installed with cygwin-b20.1. If you're reading this file, then you've -already applied perl5.005_03-static-patch. Some of the patches in -perl5.005_03-static-patch attempt to correct these problems, but it -would probably be a good idea to upgrade your compiler to egcs-1.1.1 -(or better) from Mumit Khan's website -- -http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu-win32/ - -(2) To avoid some failures when doing a "make test", use CYGWIN=ntea -while testing. However, see the Cygwin FAQ concerning the use of ntea -with FAT partitions. The tests that fail are those that deal with file -ownership and access. - -(3) Perl should build without trouble under text mounts or binary -mounts. However, some tests ("make test") may fail when using text -mounts. The tests that fail are those that involve using tie() to -attach a hashtable variable to a file. - -(4) There have been a few hints that some tests may also fail depending -on whether you're building, testing, and/or installing as a normal -user, or as a member of the Administrators group (NT only). However, -we're not sure about this one yet. - -(5) When compiling static modules for perl, don't mix modules compiled -under text mounts and modules compiled under binary mounts. - -(6) The sourcefiles in the tarball extract as "-r--r--r--" by default. -This may or may not cause problems, depending on your setup. To be safe, -I executed "chmod -R +w *". - -(7) To make life easier, you should download install-cygwin-b20.sh from -ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/cygwin/ - porters/Humblet_Pierre_A/ -and use it as your install "executable." Just follow the instructions -that are embedded as comments in that shell script. - -(8) There were a number of failed operations when installing. These -occurred in two cases: first, when trying to create man pages whose -names had ":" in them -- i.e. man/man3/Tie::Array.3, and second, -when copying the pod files from SRCDIR/pod/*.pod to -/usr/local/lib/perl5/perl5.00503/pod/. I'm not sure why, but I just -completed that operation by hand afterwards. - -RESULTS: -**************************************************** - -I built and tested as a normal user (not Administrator and not a member -of the Administrators group). However, I had to -'chown -R cwilson /usr/local/*' in order to avoid various NTisms. -(Previously, my /usr/local tree was owned by the Administrators GROUP, -and since I was building as a normal user, I couldn't install -completely. Why didn't I just switch to the Administrator account to -install? Well, that has its own share of problems: basically, the -Administrator couldn't write to those directories either - they were -owned by the Admin group, not the Admin user. And the permissions were --rw-r--r-- (or -r--r--r--), so group members weren't allowed write -access. Blame MS.) - -RESULTS: make test ------------------- - -Failed 4 test scripts out of 190, 92.63% okay. -u=2.143 s=4.897 cu=120.165 cs=159.697 scripts=180 tests=6430 - -RESULTS: ./perl harness ------------------------ -most things were "foo/bar............ok" with the following exceptions: - - -base/rs.............ok, 4/14 subtests skipped -op/groups...........skipping test on this platform -op/magic............FAILED test 23 - Failed 1/35 tests, 97.14% okay (-4 skipped tests: 30 okay, -85.71%) -op/stat.............ls: /dev: No such file or directory -FAILED tests 4, 35 - Failed 2/58 tests, 96.55% okay -op/taint............FAILED tests 1, 3, 31 - Failed 3/149 tests, 97.99% okay (-12 skipped tests: 134 okay, -89.93%) - (Also got the following popup message four times - "The dynamic -link - library cygwin1.dll could not be found in the specified path - F:\cygnus\cygwin-b20\usr\local\src\perl5.005_03\t;.; - E:\WINNT\System32;E:\WINNT\system;E:\WINNT;..") -lib/findbin.........FAILED test 1 - Failed 1/1 tests, 0.00% okay -lib/db-btree........skipping test on this platform -lib/db-hash.........skipping test on this platform -lib/db-recno........skipping test on this platform -lib/gdbm............skipping test on this platform -lib/ipc_sysv........skipping test on this platform -lib/ndbm............skipping test on this platform -lib/odbm............skipping test on this platform -lib/posix...........skipping test on this platform -lib/thread..........skipping test on this platform - -Failed Test Status Wstat Total Fail Failed List of failed ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------- -lib/findbin.t 1 1 100.00% 1 -op/magic.t 35 1 2.86% 23 -op/stat.t 58 2 3.45% 4, 35 -op/taint.t 149 3 2.01% 1, 3, 31 -10 tests skipped, plus 20 subtests skipped. -Failed 4/190 test scripts, 97.89% okay. 7/6430 subtests failed, 99.89% -okay. |