Re: [gtk-list] Re: compile problems on SunOS 5.7

[Norbert Bladt <abladtn autelca ascom ch>]

Tim Janik wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Norbert Bladt wrote:
> 
> > Dave Reed wrote:
> > >
> > > Correction - 1.2.4 won't compile using gcc 2.8.1 on any of the Suns,
> > > but it does compile fine on my RH 5.2 Linux box at home.
> > >
> > > Any suggestions?
> > Which version of perl is installed ?
> > You should have at least Perl 5.004.x to compile and install
> > GTK-1.2.[34].
> > Had a very similar problem on FreeBSD which uses perl version 4 for
> > some reason.
> > Unfortunately, the Makefile expects (hard coded) that perl is
> > in /usr/bin/perl :-(
> > I couldn't find a way to do a 'configure --perl=/usr/local/bin/perl'
> > to keep both versions on the same machine easily.
> 
> it is actually the configure script that determines the perl
> path and hard codes this into your Makefile, so the path
> shouldn't be a problem, you should be able to override this with
> $ PERL=/usr/local/bin/perl ./configure
> though.
Thanks for this hint. Now I can have both versions on the system.
I think that perl version 4 is used for other things on FreeBSD,
that's why I didn't want to remove it.

Ciao,

Norbert.

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