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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, David O'Brien wrote:

> On a -current Alpha box I cannot:
>
>     cd /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl
>     make cleandir && make cleandir
>     make obj
>     make depend
> ...
>  ===> perl
>  Extracting config.h (with variable substitutions)
>  Extracting cflags (with variable substitutions)
>  Extracting writemain (with variable substitutions)
>  Extracting myconfig (with variable substitutions)
>  miniperl:No such file or directory
>  *** Error code 1
>
> Why isn't miniperl in /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/Makefile ?

It's because people didn't want to face the cross-compilation issues.
I don't know of any reason why miniperl can't be built as a build-tool,
but haven't tested this.

I work around this bug by building miniperl manually and copying it to
/usr/bin

Bruce


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