Re^6: Compile PERL from source on Windows

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in thread Compile PERL from source on Windows

Thanks Rob!

I'm on 32 bit XP right now. I originally tried this on a 64 bit Win 7 -- with either archecture, I get the same error though. At least I'm consistent.

my preldelta matches. It should. I didn't modify it.

=encoding utf8

=head1 NAME

perldelta - what is new for perl v5.16.3

=head1 DESCRIPTION
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I did try to see what is in $contents and nothing was there. If I modify pod_lib.pl like so:

open Fpod, $filename or die "Can't read $filename: $!";
local $/;
my $filepod = <Fpod>;
close Fpod;

my $contents = $filepod;
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then that gets me past the original problem of "Can't extract version from pod/perldelta.pod"... that is fixed from the code snip just above.

However, with using that code snippet, it now throws another error later down in pod_lib.pl. At this point, I have an uneasy feeling about chasing modifications to pod_lib code when it has worked for others out of the box.

Thanks!

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