Re: question about installation of GD::Text on cygwin (could be a Makefile q)

From: Randy Kobes (randy_at_theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca)
Date: 12/01/03 

Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 09:43:23 -0600

"Upstart" <stimonyhall@netscape.net> wrote in message
 news:79516caa.0312010615.143302a3@posting.google.com...
> Hi
>
> For background: I am trying to install a few modules with an
> environment of Cygwin w/ windows 2000. The module I am stuck on is
> GD::Text.
>
> tried this post on the *.modules list with no luck.
>
> Went to cygwin to download latest and greatest code, and they seem to
> package freetype and the GD library now. So I downloaded them and
> installed, then was able to successfully build GD.pm.
>
> Now I downloaded GD::Text 0.86. I do a 'perl Makefile.PL' and it won't
> drop/create a Makefile. I downloaded 0.85 and got the same results:
>
> $ perl Makefile.PL
> Checking if your kit is complete...
> Looks good
>
> $
>
> that's it... no Makefile. no error messages. I am building other
> modules (Like GD) and this step builds a Makefile with those modules.
>
> How would I trouble shoot this? I guess it would have to do with the
> ExtUtils::MakeMaker module.... but I don't know how to troubleshoot
> this kind of fundamental problem.

If you comment out all the stuff at the beginning of Makefile.PL
involving eval{}, and just leave the WriteMakefile() call in, is a
Makefile produced?

best regards,
randy kobes

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