I'm having trouble with PAR on win xp pro. Any suggestions most welcome. Thanks.
C:\Documents and Settings\Desktop\scroll>perl test.pl
hello world
C:\Documents and Settings\Desktop\scroll>type test.pl
use strict;
print "hello world\n";
C:\Documents and Settings\Desktop\scroll>pp test.pl
Can't spawn "C:\APPS\Perl\bin\parl.exe": Bad file descriptor at C:\APP
+S\Perl\bin
\pp line 372.
And here's perl -V
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 2) configuration:
Platform:
osname=MSWin32, osvers=4.0, archname=MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
uname=''
config_args='undef'
hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=undef
usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=define usemultip
+licity=define
useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
Compiler:
cc='cl', ccflags ='-nologo -Gf -W3 -MD -Zi -DNDEBUG -O1 -DWIN32 -D
+_CONSOLE -DNO_STRICT -DHAVE_DES_FCRYPT -DNO_HASH_SEED -DPERL_IMPLICI
+T_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -DUSE_PERLIO -DPERL_MSVCRT_READFIX',
optimize='-MD -Zi -DNDEBUG -O1',
cppflags='-DWIN32'
ccversion='', gccversion='', gccosandvers=''
intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
d_longlong=undef, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=10
ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='__int64
+', lseeksize=8
alignbytes=8, prototype=define
Linker and Libraries:
ld='link', ldflags ='-nologo -nodefaultlib -debug -opt:ref,icf -l
+ibpath:"C:\APPS\Perl\lib\CORE" -machine:x86'
libpth=C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~3\VC98\lib
libs= oldnames.lib kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool.lib
+ comdlg32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib oleaut32.lib netap
+i32.lib uuid.lib wsock32.lib mpr.lib winmm.lib version.lib odbc32.li
+b odbccp32.lib msvcrt.lib
perllibs= oldnames.lib kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool
+.lib comdlg32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib oleaut32.lib n
+etapi32.lib uuid.lib wsock32.lib mpr.lib winmm.lib version.lib odbc3
+2.lib odbccp32.lib msvcrt.lib
libc=msvcrt.lib, so=dll, useshrplib=yes, libperl=perl58.lib
gnulibc_version='undef'
Dynamic Linking:
dlsrc=dl_win32.xs, dlext=dll, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags='-dll -nologo -nodefaultlib -debug -opt:
+ref,icf -libpath:"C:\APPS\Perl\lib\CORE" -machine:x86'
Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES PERL
+_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT PERL_IMPLICIT_SYS
Locally applied patches:
ActivePerl Build 808
21846 Configure gets d_u32align wrong
21739 [perl #24493] install.html not working
21737 Ooops. left an XXX comment in, and worse still it's a // c
+omment
21735 utf8 keys now work for tied hashes
21734 Accessing unicode keys in tie hashes via hv_exists was bro
+ken
21733 ext/threads/t/problem.t
21732 Config::myconfig() fails under ithreads
21728 Update perlhist with 5.6.2
21723 Include 'SCCS' in the list of dir names ignored by install
+perl
21718 Empty subroutine as object method segfaults in 5.8.2 (some
+times)
21714 Fix bug #24380: assigning list with duplicated keys to a h
+ash
21706 [perl #24460] [DOC PATCH] the begincheck program
21693 must copy changes from win32/makeifle.mk to wince/makefile
+.ce
21691 Update the list of pumpkings in perlhist.pod
21687 [PATCH 5.6.2-RC1 pod/perlhist.pod] Updated
21677 OS/2 docu
21676 Bug #24407: key for shared hash got stringified into wrong
+ pool
21673 Be sure to use -fPIC not -fpic on Linux/SPARC
21672 extending the hash attack test
21671 Benchmark.pm cmpthese segfault
21662 'make minitest' fails for op/cproto and op/pat
21586 Comment that this 'optimisation' is actually a necessary f
+ixup
21548 Sync with Pod::Perldoc 3.12
21540 Fix backward-compatibility issues in if.pm
Built under MSWin32
Compiled at Dec 9 2003 10:19:40
@INC:
C:/APPS/Perl/lib
C:/APPS/Perl/site/lib
.
Just installed PAR today
C:\Documents and Settings\Desktop\scroll>ppm
PPM - Programmer's Package Manager version 3.1.
Copyright (c) 2001 ActiveState SRL. All Rights Reserved.
Entering interactive shell. Using Term::ReadLine::Stub as readline lib
+rary.
Type 'help' to get started.
ppm> properties PAR
====================
Name: PAR
Version: 0.75
Author: Autrijus Tang (autrijus@autrijus.org)
Title: PAR
Abstract: Perl Archive Tookit
InstDate: 08:29:48 2005
Location:
http://ppm.ActiveState.com/cgibin/PPM/ppmserver-5.8-windows.pl?urn:/PP
+MServer
Prerequisites:
1. Module-ScanDeps 0.0
2. Archive-Zip 0.0
3. PAR-Dist 0.05
Available Platforms:
1. MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-5.8
====================
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