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
>