Re: howdy--any help for a newbie?

Chris Dean (ctdean@aig.jpl.nasa.gov)
Thu, 18 Jan 1996 19:14:57 -0800 

John Balwit <balwit@wonder.lilypad.com> writes:
> Totally stumped.
> 
> I went out and bought all the books, downloaded perl and went to  
> bed dreaming of the glorious day when I too would be a PERL  
> programmer. Alas, next moring, when I tried to install Perl on my  
> NextStep 3.3 Intel system, I got the following messages.

I'm clueless about the Next, but maybe the FAQ will help.  You could
also try the perl5-porters mailing list  instead of the libwww one (or
did I miss this questions on perl5-porters?).

1.18) How do I get Perl to compile on a Next?

    According to Andreas Koenig*, under NeXTstep 3.2, both perl4.036 and
    perl5.000 compile with the supplied hints file. 

    However, Bill Eldridge* provides this message to help get perl4.036 on
    NeXTstep 3.0 to work: 

        To get perl to compile on NeXTs, you need to combine the ANSI
        and BSD headers:

        cd /usr/include
        mkdir ansibsd
        cd ansibsd
        ln -s ../ansi
        ln -s ../bsd

        Then, follow the configuration instructions for NeXTs, *replacing*
        all mention of -I/usr/include/ansi or -I/usr/include/bsd with
        -I/usr/include/ansibsd.

Chris Dean