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Trying to install - got this error #7070

Closed p5pRT closed 20 years ago

p5pRT commented 20 years ago

Migrated from rt.perl.org#25279 (status was 'resolved')

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p5pRT commented 20 years ago

From Ron.Balcarras@NFIB.ORG

I am following your INSTALL document.

I am on a WIN2000 box - it has MKStool Kit on it. We are running Oracle Financials 11.5.7 and this PERL is a prereq for an Oracle Cloning utility.

I guess I turn to you guys now thanks to the cool error message.

Help!

thanks!

rsb

E​:\FinAppl\perl-5.8.2>dir con* Volume in drive E has no label. Volume Serial Number is 449D-2803

Directory of E​:\FinAppl\perl-5.8.2

09/30/2003 12​:09p 18\,438 configpm 09/30/2003 12​:09p 515\,313 Configure 09/30/2003 12​:09p 199\,192 configure.com 09/30/2003 12​:09p 2\,753 configure.gnu 09/30/2003 12​:09p 142\,382 config_h.SH   5 File(s) 878\,078 bytes   0 Dir(s) 58\,662\,305\,792 bytes free

E​:\FinAppl\perl-5.8.2>rm -f config.sh policy.sh

E​:\FinAppl\perl-5.8.2>rm -f config.sh Policy.sh

E​:\FinAppl\perl-5.8.2>sh Configure -de (I see you are using the Korn shell. Some ksh's blow up on Configure\, mainly on older exotic systems. If yours does\, try the Bourne shell instead.) Configure​: Fatal Error​: I can't find a Bourne Shell anywhere.

Usually it's in /bin/sh. How did you even get this far? Please contact me (Perl Maintainers) at perlbug@​perl.org and we'll try to straighten this all out.

E​:\FinAppl\perl-5.8.2>

p5pRT commented 20 years ago

From Ron.Balcarras@NFIB.ORG

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p5pRT commented 20 years ago

From @doughera88

In perl.perl5.porters\, you wrote​:

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# New Ticket Created by "Balcarras\, Ron" # Please include the string​: [perl #25279] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # \<URL​: http​://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=25279 >

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I am following your INSTALL document.

I am on a WIN2000 box - it has MKStool Kit on it. We are running Oracle Financials 11.5.7 and this PERL is a prereq for an Oracle Cloning utility.

[ . . . ]

E​:\FinAppl\perl-5.8.2>sh Configure -de (I see you are using the Korn shell. Some ksh's blow up on Configure\, mainly on older exotic systems. If yours does\, try the Bourne shell instead.) Configure​: Fatal Error​: I can't find a Bourne Shell anywhere.

Usually it's in /bin/sh. How did you even get this far? Please contact me (Perl Maintainers) at perlbug@​perl.org and we'll try to straighten this all out.

E​:\FinAppl\perl-5.8.2>

This is unlikely to work. Confikgure is primarily aimed at installing perl on Unix systems. The MKStool kit probably doesn't provide enough of a Unix-like system to satisy Configure. This paritcular message meant that Configure was unable to find any of the shells​: "sh\, bash\, ksh\, pdksh\, or ash" anywhere along your $PATH.

It's possible that adjusting your PATH to include the directory where your ksh is installed will help Configure get past this particular hurdle\, but I suspect it'll just crash somewhere else soon after.

If you want to build your own perl\, you should definitely consult the README.win32 file in the perl distribution. If you just want to downloading a prebuilt Win32 binary\, it is available from activestate.com (and doubtless other places as well). It could be

Hope this helps\,

  Andy Dougherty doughera@​lafayette.edu

p5pRT commented 20 years ago

The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

p5pRT commented 20 years ago

From @ysth

On Mon\, Jan 26\, 2004 at 08​:09​:48PM -0000\, "Balcarras\, Ron" \perlbug\-followup@&#8203;perl\.org wrote​:

I am on a WIN2000 box - it has MKStool Kit on it.

E​:\FinAppl\perl-5.8.2>sh Configure -de (I see you are using the Korn shell. Some ksh's blow up on Configure\, mainly on older exotic systems. If yours does\, try the Bourne shell instead.) Configure​: Fatal Error​: I can't find a Bourne Shell anywhere.

Usually it's in /bin/sh. How did you even get this far? Please contact me (Perl Maintainers) at perlbug@​perl.org and we'll try to straighten this all out.

Looks to me like the logic to search PATH for sh will fail if it is in a directory whose name contains a space.

As a workaround\, try sh Configure -Dsh=sh -de as a workaround\, or put the short name (e.g. PROGRA~1 instead of "Program Files") in your path.

p5pRT commented 20 years ago

From @ysth

On Mon\, Jan 26\, 2004 at 08​:09​:48PM -0000\, "Balcarras\, Ron" \perlbug\-followup@&#8203;perl\.org wrote​:

I am on a WIN2000 box - it has MKStool Kit on it.

E​:\FinAppl\perl-5.8.2>sh Configure -de (I see you are using the Korn shell. Some ksh's blow up on Configure\, mainly on older exotic systems. If yours does\, try the Bourne shell instead.) Configure​: Fatal Error​: I can't find a Bourne Shell anywhere.

Usually it's in /bin/sh. How did you even get this far? Please contact me (Perl Maintainers) at perlbug@​perl.org and we'll try to straighten this all out.

Looks to me like the logic to search PATH for sh will fail if it is in a directory whose name contains a space.

As a workaround\, try sh Configure -Dsh=sh -de as a workaround\, or put the short name (e.g. PROGRA~1 instead of "Program Files") in your path.

p5pRT commented 20 years ago

From @doughera88

On Tue\, 27 Jan 2004\, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote​:

On Mon\, Jan 26\, 2004 at 08​:09​:48PM -0000\, "Balcarras\, Ron" \perlbug\-followup@&#8203;perl\.org wrote​:

I am on a WIN2000 box - it has MKStool Kit on it.

E​:\FinAppl\perl-5.8.2>sh Configure -de (I see you are using the Korn shell. Some ksh's blow up on Configure\, mainly on older exotic systems. If yours does\, try the Bourne shell instead.) Configure​: Fatal Error​: I can't find a Bourne Shell anywhere.

Looks to me like the logic to search PATH for sh will fail if it is in a directory whose name contains a space.

Good catch.

As a workaround\, try sh Configure -Dsh=sh -de as a workaround\, or put the short name (e.g. PROGRA~1 instead of "Program Files") in your path.

Configure is definitely not built to understand directory or file names with spaces in them. It also assumes a mostly unix-like environment. I'd be very surprised if this actually worked.

--   Andy Dougherty doughera@​lafayette.edu

p5pRT commented 20 years ago

From Ron.Balcarras@NFIB.ORG

I started over and installed the proper version and was able to proceed. User error. Thanks for you help.

-----Original Message----- From​: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes via RT [mailto​:perlbug-followup@​perl.org] Sent​: Sunday\, February 01\, 2004 9​:09 PM To​: Balcarras\, Ron Subject​: Re​: [perl #25279] Trying to install - got this error

On Mon\, Jan 26\, 2004 at 08​:09​:48PM -0000\, "Balcarras\, Ron" \perlbug\-followup@&#8203;perl\.org wrote​:

I am on a WIN2000 box - it has MKStool Kit on it.

E​:\FinAppl\perl-5.8.2>sh Configure -de (I see you are using the Korn shell. Some ksh's blow up on Configure\, mainly on older exotic systems. If yours does\, try the Bourne shell instead.) Configure​: Fatal Error​: I can't find a Bourne Shell anywhere.

Usually it's in /bin/sh. How did you even get this far? Please contact me (Perl Maintainers) at perlbug@​perl.org and we'll try to straighten this all out.

Looks to me like the logic to search PATH for sh will fail if it is in a directory whose name contains a space.

As a workaround\, try sh Configure -Dsh=sh -de as a workaround\, or put the short name (e.g. PROGRA~1 instead of "Program Files") in your path.

p5pRT commented 20 years ago

@rspier - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'