djgpp install problems

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From rewind@operamail.com

I've encountered a few problems installing perl500503 onto djgpp.
First of all, symlinking sh to bash didn't seem to work, so I copied bash.exe
to sh.exe within djgpp/bin/. But that's no big deal. After that, everything
pretty much goes smoothly until I run 'make install'. At the point where it
calls perl installperl, it tells me that my patchlevel doesn't match.
that is, this part​:
my $ver = $];
my $release = substr($ver,0,3); # Not used presently.
my $patchlevel = substr($ver,3,2);
die "Patchlevel of perl ($patchlevel)",
  "and patchlevel of config.sh ($Config{'PATCHLEVEL'}) don't match\n"
  if $patchlevel != $Config{'PATCHLEVEL'};
outputs this​:
Patchlevel of perl (5) and patchlevel of config.sh () don't match

Also, perl myconfig didn't work until I changed the first line of myconfig to
have the full path of sh.exe. When I ran it, it had blank spaces next to
patchlevel and subversion. Looking in config.sh, I find the correct numbers
next to patchlevel and subversion, namely '5' and '3'.

I can't install perl without solving this problem!
Help!
Thanks zillions,
Brian Stamper
rewind@​operamail.com

here's what I built djgpp with​:
from djgpp zip picker​:
v2/copying.dj DJGPP Copyright info 2 kb
v2/djdev202.zip DJGPP Basic Development Kit 1.4 mb
v2/faq211b.zip Frequently Asked Questions 551 kb
v2/readme.1st Installation instructions 14 kb
v2apps/rhide14b.zip RHIDE 1.6 mb
v2gnu/bnu281b.zip Basic assember, linker 1.8 mb
v2gnu/gcc2951b.zip Basic GCC compiler 1.7 mb
v2gnu/gpp2951b.zip C++ compiler 1.6 mb
v2gnu/lgpp295b.zip C++ libraries 484 kb
v2gnu/mak377b.zip Make (processes makefiles) 242 kb
v2gnu/txi312b.zip Info file reader
v2tk/allegro/alleg312.zip Allegro game library 1.4 mb
also add portion from perl readme.dos file
v2gnu/bsh1147b.zip
v2gnu/fil316b.zip
v2gnu/sed118b.zip
v2gnu/txt122b.zip
v2gnu/dif271b.zip
v2gnu/grep22b.zip
v2gnu/shl112b.zip
v2gnu/gwk303b.zip
v2misc/csdpmi4b.zip

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From [Unknown Contact. See original ticket]

hello again

I fixed the problem, but it is still a problem others will probably have.
The symlink problem was my fault, I did it in the wrong directory (duh.)
But more to the point, here's what I did​:
I started from scratch - I erased all folders/files of p500503 and djgpp, then
reinstalled all of that. I fixed a djgpp distribution error - I was using
lgpp295b.zip with gpp2951b, but there's an updated lgp2951b.zip which I used
this time. But I don't think this was the real problem.

When the configure script offered a shell exit to modify config.sh, I entered
!edit config.sh (I don't have vi)

Near the bottom of the document was a list of 'Variables propagated from
previous config.sh file.' Now remember, I had erased the previous config.sh
along with everything else. Here there were two lines that said PATCHLEVEL='',
mixed in with a few other lines that said patchlevel='5' (and the date and
subversion lines). I erased the PATCHLEVEL='' lines, saved config.sh, exited
edit and continued with the configure script. After that, 'make', 'make test',
and 'make install' all worked like they're supposed to. (Actually, make test
said op/stat FAILED AT TEST 2, but for some reason I'm not worried about
that.)

brian

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