On Thu, 1 Aug 2002 16:50:25 +0200 Aldo Calpini <dada.list@[...].it>  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).

Perl 5.8.0 almost builds on Win95, command.com, MinGW, dmake.
("almost" means that you need a small patch because MM autputs
 some spaces instead of tabs in makefiles, other than that it builds,
 but hangs in the test suite (it would probably work, too,
 but I use Win95 just to play RayMan, so I don't know...)

Regards
Mattia