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To: Sumanth Peddamatham <me@bunny.dislocatedbrain.com>
Cc: "F. Xavier Noria" <fxn@isoco.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: perl not found.  trouble installing galeon/xml-i18n-tools
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On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Sumanth Peddamatham wrote:

> On 2002.02.22 19:20 F. Xavier Noria wrote:
> > On Fri, 22 Feb 2002 17:59:10 -0500
> > Sumanth Peddamatham <me@bunny.dislocatedbrain.com> wrote:
> > 
> > : i'm having trouble compiling the galeon port.  the 'make install'
> > fails
> > : on the perl check.  it's strange because i have xml-i18n-tools
> > : installed, but i think the port uses its own version or something.
> > any
> > : help would be appreciated.
> > 
> > <snip>
> > 
> > : ===>  Configuring for galeon-1.0.3
> > : checking for perl... no
> > 
> > Hmmmm... just to be sure... is perl actually in your PATH? Does
> > 'which perl' find it?
> > 
> > -- fxn
> > 
> 
> 
> yes, perl is in my path.  i have had no problem 'make'ing most other 
> ports that require perl.  it seems that i'm having problems with any 
> port that uses the new version of 'configure'.  the old version works 
> fine.  i've even tried 'cut and pasting' the old perl detection code 
> into the new configure, but i guess isn't not that easy because i get 
> errors.
> 
> btw, 'which perl' returns: /usr/bin/perl
> 

	It may need a newer version of perl?  The one shipped with fBSD is
	pretty old.

	Also, check and see what the configure script is checking for...it
	may be looking for /usr/local/bin/perl or similar.


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