Thanks for all the help! >> [ot@papc-mag-17 Tk800.023]# make tkperl >> make: *** No rule to make target `tkperl'. Stop. >> >> Any ideas? Thanks in advance. > > oh dear - you are chasing a phantom..... > > http://www.lns.cornell.edu/~pvhp/ptk/qna2.html
This link does not really help the matter: > Lastly, it should be mentioned that if you build your perl/Tk > statically rather than dynamically it will make a new perl interpreter > called tkperl (confusing isn't it? :-). It doesn't tell me how to actually make the tkperl interpreter. > > { although a reasonably old one by computer times.... } > > the problem is that there is no target 'tkperl' in > the make file - hence it will not make the target... > > xanana: 76:] make happy > make: *** No rule to make target `happy'. Stop. > xanana: 77:] Yep - am aware of this. Have had a look at the makefile - and it aint there! > so the question is what happens when you do the make test side... Then it tests the Tk modules - i.e you get 100's of tk windows appearing and disappearing: All tests successful. Files=25, Tests=904, 50 wallclock secs (17.27 cusr + 2.10 csys = 19.37 CPU) A "make install" then installs the compiled modules to the relevent directory. BUT - how do you build tkperl? A. > ciao > drieux >