Mr. Nobody wrote:
>  The windows 9x command.com shell dosen't recognize

>  2>&1 so it ends up passing "2" as an argument to the

>  compiler, which fails because there's no such file.


this is no news. you can't even build Perl on 9x.
IMHO, *build* platform targets should not include 9x.
build it on NT/2000/XP and then feel free to use the
binary on 9x (as Perl actually does).


cheers,
Aldo

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