Re: Makemaker problem with libxml-perl

[Art Mitchell]

Please take me off your e-mail list! >>> "Wayne Haufler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 06/27/01 01:50PM >>> Hello, This is my first posting here. I have been trying to build libxml-perl for its PerlSAX module needed by XML-DBMS, on a Windows 2000 system with ActivePerl installed, but have run into a problem.  I am having a different problem with this effort on a Solaris 8 system, but involving expat. I have been attempting to join the ActiveState's perl-xml discussion group to ask this question, and found an posting about an identical problem from Daniel McMillan, but no solution, and then I asked the maintainer of libxml-perl, who suggested I ask the makemaker discussion group. Here is some system information: $ uname -a Windows_NT WHAUFLER-0316 5 00 586 $ perl -V Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 6 subversion 0) configuration:   Platform:     osname=MSWin32, osvers=4.0, archname=MSWin32-x86-multi-thread     uname=''     config_args='undef'     hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=undef     usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=define usemultiplicity=define     useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=undef     use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef usesocks=undef   Compiler:     cc='cl', optimize='-O1 -MD -DNDEBUG', gccversion=     cppflags='-DWIN32'     ccflags ='-O1 -MD -DNDEBUG -DWIN32 -D_CONSOLE -DNO_STRICT -DHAVE_DES_FCRYPT  -DPERL_ IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -DPERL_MSVCRT_READFIX'     stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=false     intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8     d_longlong=undef, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=10     ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=4     alignbytes=8, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define   Linker and Libraries:     ld='link', ldflags '-nologo -nodefaultlib -release  -libpath:"D:\Perl\lib\CORE"  -machine:x86'     libpth="D:\Perl\lib\CORE"     libs=  oldnames.lib kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool.lib comdlg32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib oleaut32.lib  netapi32.lib uui d.lib wsock32.lib mpr.lib winmm.lib  version.lib odbc32.lib odbccp32.lib msvcrt.lib     libc=msvcrt.lib, so=dll, useshrplib=yes, libperl=perl56.lib   Dynamic Linking:     dlsrc="dl_win32.xs," dlext=dll, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '     cccdlflags=' ', ddlflags='-dll -nologo -nodefaultlib -release  -libpath:"D:\Perl\lib\CORE" -machine:x86' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):   Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY USE_ITHREADS PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT PERL_IMPLICIT_SYS   Locally applied patches:         ActivePerl Build 623   Built under MSWin32   Compiled at Dec 15 2000 16:27:07   @INC:     d:/Perl/lib     d:/Perl/site/lib     . cd D:\Perl-Other\XML-RDB\perl-libxml\libxml-perl-0.07 $ perl Makefile.PL Checking if your kit is complete... Looks good Writing Makefile for libxml-perl $ make make: makefile: line 683:  Error -- Expecting macro or rule defn, found neither In the resulting Makefile, line 683 is: $(PM_TO_BLIB) In context, this line is as follows: ... # --- MakeMaker pm_to_blib section: pm_to_blib: $(TO_INST_PM)     @$(PERL) "-I$(INST_ARCHLIB)" "-I$(INST_LIB)" \     "-I$(PERL_ARCHLIB)" "-I$(PERL_LIB)" -MExtUtils::Install \         -e "pm_to_blib(qw[ <<pmfiles.dat ],'$(INST_LIB)\auto')" $(PM_TO_BLIB) <<     @$(TOUCH) $@ # --- MakeMaker selfdocument section: # --- MakeMaker postamble section: # End. I'm no make-guru, but these three lines don't look to me like valid Makefile syntax, even after manually expanding the variables. If this is valid, what does it mean? If invalid, what is missing or wrong? $(PM_TO_BLIB) <<     @$(TOUCH) $@ The result looks like an INCOMPLETE Makefile, perhaps. Thank you, Wayne Haufler MigraTEC, Inc.