On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 04:50:25PM +0200, Aldo Calpini wrote:
>  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).


Nikola Knezevic ( indy at tesla.rcub.bg.ac.yu ) was certainly managing
it last year, and was reporting to p5p on progresses with clearing up
regression test failures.
I think he wasn't using the 9x command.com shell though.

Nicholas Clark