Re: [gtk-list] Perl and compilation problem

[Norbert Bladt <abladtn autelca ascom ch>]

jpbeconne@free.fr wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I downloaded GTK+ version 1.2.3, and tried to compile it. It fails when perl
> files were treated. It seems that perl doesn't recognize the syntax. I am on
> FreeBSD 2.2.5 and my perl version is 4 patch 36.
> Could anyone help me ?
At least perl 5.004.x is required to install GTK+-1.2.3.
I faced the same problem on FreeBSD-2.2.8.
So I installed perl version 5 on my system.
In addition, the Makefile does - per default - expect that
perl is /usr/bin/perl !
So I renamed /usr/bin/perl to /usr/bin/perl4 - I don't know why
perl version 4 is still used on FreeBSD.
Perhaps it is used for important stuff so I wanted to keep it.
I did install perl v5 in /usr/local but put a copy of the perl
interpreter as "perl" into /usr/bin.

Now the install works without any problems whatsoever.

HTH,

Norbert.

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