Matt

I've tracked down the cause of nmake failing and it's not to do with the
installation of PurePerl. It seems that MakeMaker is generating invalid
syntax for nmake when a sub makefile is involved. I've found the lines
in MM_Unix which cause it and patched them and now nmake works.

If anyone else is hit by this problem then let me know and I'll send the
patch.  I'll also query ActiveState on this.

The PurePerl installation doesn't cause a problem, it just doesn't get
run by my incantation

perl makefile.pl
nmake
ppm install

but that's my problem! I just have to install each parser manually.

Thanks

Duncan Cameron

On 2001-11-30 Matt Sergeant <msergeant@[...].uk>  wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Duncan Cameron [mailto:dcameron@[...].uk]
> > 
> > Matt
> > 
> > I've not seen you announce it on this list yet but it's on CPAN ...
> > 
> > A couple of problems in installing it.
> > 
> > The manifest expects two files which are missing
> > 
> > Warning: the following files are missing in your kit:
> >         XML-SAX-Base/Changes
> >         XML-SAX-Base/README
> > Please inform the author.
> > 
> > Then nmake fails:
> > 
> > makefile(416) : fatal error U1035: syntax error : expected ':' or '='
> >  separator
> > 
> > I see that makefile.pl creates a second make file in the XML-sax-base
> > directory. I'm using ActiveState Win32 with a very old nmake 
> > (1994) and 
> > wondered if it can handle what you're doing.
> 
> It's likely the part that adds the XML::SAX::PurePerl module to the list of
> available parsers. See Makefile.PL, sub MY::install().
> 
> Since this seems to be a bone of contention with XML::SAX, would it be
> better to ask questions in Makefile.PL to say "do you want to run this bit"
> ?
> 
> Matt.


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