That sounds about right as far as getting it work under the latest
Perl 5. When I was working on it I think I was using Perl 5 beta.
The main change is (b). Then you can type "perl Makefile.PL", and
edit the final makefile by hand if need be.

Still looking for volunteers to clean things up :-)

roland

Bob Kemp writes:
> > Greetings!
> >   I am trying to install AFSperl, but am not having very good luck.
> > There is no installation documentation at all - does anyone have any
> > suggestions?
> We've got it running here, although we haven't used it very much.
> 
> >From memory:
> 
>         (a) rename the directory from AFSperl to AFS
>             and move it into the "ext" subdir of your Perl5
>             source distribution.
> 
>         (b) edit ext/AFS/Makefile.PL to change
> 
>                 writeMakefile
>             to
>                 WriteMakefile
> 
> 
>             I also found it necessary to change
> 
>                 /usr/afsws/lib/afs/util.a
>             to
>                 -lutil
> 
>             and add a symlink
> 
>                 /usr/afsws/lib/afs/libutil.a@ -> util.a
> 
> I think that should get it to compile.
> After that, the scripts in the examples directory are your documentation :-)
> 
> Bob
> 

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