[WM] Install woes under Win98 and ActivePerl

[Eric Pement]

Hello! I just downloaded Webmake v2.3 and tried to install it under 
Windows 98SE, using Active Perl v5.6.1, build 631. The install 
procedure under README says to execute

    perl windows_install.pl

and this will generate some batch files which will then install 
webmake. Well, I did so, and I got some suspicious results. The first 
is that the two files it generates are do not have today's filedate 
but have the filedate of the runperl.bat file. IOW, they identical to 
(1) each other and (2) to c:\perl\bin\runperl.bat. Observe:

---begin copied output---
C:\HTML-WebMake-2.3>dir *.bat

 Volume in drive C is WIN98_BOOT
 Volume Serial Number is 3E48-19DB
 Directory of C:\HTML-WebMake-2.3

WEBMAKE  BAT         2,434  01-02-02  5:19p webmake.bat
MAKETEST BAT         2,434  01-02-02  5:19p maketest.bat
         2 file(s)          4,868 bytes
         0 dir(s)        5,434.93 MB free

C:\HTML-WebMake-2.3>diff -s webmake.bat maketest.bat
Files webmake.bat and maketest.bat are identical

C:\HTML-WebMake-2.3>diff -s webmake.bat c:\perl\bin\runperl.bat
Files webmake.bat and c:\perl\bin\runperl.bat are identical

---end copied output-----

   Is this intentional??

   So when I run 'webmake' (omitting the .bat extension), I get the 
complaint, 'webmake not found' and the batch file exits immediately.

   When run 'maketest' (omitting the .bat extension), it runs through 
a l-o-n-g series of tests, complaining all along the way that 
'webmake' cannot be found, and then fails almost all the tests:

   Failed 51/53 test scripts, 3.77% okay. 499/563 subtests failed,
   11.37% okay.

So I got NMAKE.EXE version 1.5 from Microsoft and tried the alternate 
installation process. NMAKE complained that it couldn't find an 
installation of ET-Text, and created a zero-length file in the 
current directory which it named "&1" (which is a legal filename for 
MS-DOS but is probably supposed to be a perl subroutine.... maybe).

So I interrupted the Webmake installation and tried to install ET-
Text v2.3 and ran into the same sorts of problems. It won't install 
with the perl windows_install.pl script or with the NMAKE program.

Somebody please help. Jason, are you out there?

Kind regards,

Eric Pement
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Eric Pement - pemente at northpark.edu