Gah. The quoting is all getting mangled. Policy on this list, and most public lists online isn't top quoting. So, response after the trimmed quoted text
On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 05:07:40PM -0700, Brezovec, Dick wrote: > So do you have any idea of my the script recommended me to abort because > I took all the default settings?? > > Dick Brezovec > Staff Computer Security Analyst > Southwest Region VAR/P3/ISM POC > Cell: 408-205-9033 > Currently working at our San Jose site > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rafael Garcia-Suarez via RT [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 2:09 AM > To: Brezovec, Dick > Subject: Re: [perl #36645] INSTALLATION OF PERL 5.8.7 > > > Brezovec, Dick wrote: > > > You may give one or more space-separated answers, or "none" if > > > appropriate. A well-behaved OS will have no hints, so answering > > > "none" or just "Policy" is a good thing. DO NOT give a wrong > > > version or a wrong OS. > > > > > > Which of these apply, if any? [solaris_2] solaris_8 solaris_8.sh > > > does not exist hint to use instead? [solaris_8] none > > I think you should try with solaris_2 here. The shell script says : > > # For consistency with gcc, we do not adopt Sun Marketing's > # removal of the '2.' prefix from the Solaris version number. > # (Configure tries to detect an old fixincludes and needs > # this information.) > > Usually Configure runs just fine when you accept the defaults. For the original report, you didn't accept the default settings. You forced "none" where the default for the platform was solaris_2. >From the output from Configure you quoted in the original bug report, the last few lines were reporting about a C compiler failure. However, the last line doesn't say that specifically: You have a BIG problem. Shall I abort Configure [y] Probably we should add the text "I cannot compile programs with your C compiler" to that. Nicholas Clark
