WAS: RH9: Cannot determine ...

[Rick Measham]

I'm having problems with RedHat 9. Now it could just be my install, 
but someone might be able to help me. I know this is offtopic, but 
the problem only reared it's head when installing DateTime. The 
problem is this: in shell, I can't type a quote without a seqeunce 
such as [quote][x][delete]. It seems that if I type [quote][e] I get 
an 'e' with an accute. [quote] seems to have become a meta key for 
accents and thus I get only the occasional quote in my Makefile. See 
below.

Does anyone have any idea what's going on? I just tested it in gEdit 
under X and I have exactly the same problem

The only place that it doesn't happen is in SSH, however the Makefile 
is still missing heaps of single-quotes.

How do I fix this?

Thanks anyone. Following is my original email where I was trying to 
track down a suspected problem with the DateTime installer. (DBI 
installed without any hiccups!)

Cheers!
Rick


Redhat 9 cannot determine if we have a C compiler and so tries 
defaulting to install PP Only.

When I first run 'perl Makefile.PL' I am told that this is because:

   make: *** No rule to make target 'testub'. Stop.

This seems to be because we try to run (on line 34 of Makefile.PL)

   system("$make text$Config{obj_ext}");

I checked $Config{obj_ext} at line 33 and it is 'ub' for some reason, 
however when I check in a one-liner, it's '.o'.

Now if I 'make test.o' from the command line, it compiles.

So, then I went into Makefile.PL and changed line 34 to

   system("$make text.o");

and it writes the Makefile without any problems. However now when I 
'make' I get another error:

   Makefile:98: *** missing separator.  Stop.

Which means that there's an error on line 98 of the Makefile. Line 97-99 is:

   INSTALLSITEBIN = /usr
   INSTALLVENDORBIN = /usr/bin'
   installvendorhtml1=''
So the problem on line 98 would be the single quote. Where did THAT come from?

Now, I remove that and try again .. hang on, now I find that there 
are heaps of lines with single quotes. OK, I'm going to stop this and 
paste what seems to be the basic question at the top of this mail.

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