Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!phigate!prle!prles2!cstw168!meulenbr From: meulenbr@cst.prl.philips.nl (Frans Meulenbroeks) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Configure(perl) problems Keywords: awk sh(read) Message-ID: Date: 14 Feb 91 07:39:16 GMT References: <1991Feb13.234330.22976@bwdls61.bnr.ca> Sender: news@prles2.prl.philips.nl Lines: 19 In the past I looked at perl too. I don't think configure will run under minix. As you already found out awk and sh are just not good enough. I believe expr also caused problems, but maybe that's fixed by now. I tried this more than a year ago. Anyway, I just ran configure on a Sun, and hand edited the changes required for minix. That seemed to be the fastest way. Unfortunately, that will not give you perl. Perl relies on the existence of things like floating point and so on, which is not available with the MINIX C compiler. Of course if you use gcc and a PD lib, you might get somewhere. Let me know if you succeed. -- Frans Meulenbroeks (meulenbr@cst.prl.philips.nl) Centre for Software Technology