[WM] Install woes under Win98 and ActivePerl

[Eric Pement]

Replying to Duncan, who on 25 Apr 2002 wrote:

> >   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.
[ ... ]

> You've got a similar configuration to mine, W98 and Active Perl. I had
> problems with the installation too, but can't really remember the
> details.  What I seem to have done is worked around it by the
> following:
> 
> expanded the Webmake zip file into a new directory
> renamed webmake.raw to webmake
> created a webmake.bat file in a directory on my path which contains
> simply:
>     perl -w "\path to webmake\webmake" %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
> 
> 
> I can then run webmake from any other folder e.g.:
>     webmake -f site.wmk

Thanks for letting me know this technique. I tried that, but kept the 
-x and -S switches, and got the following result:

---copied console output, reformatted for reading, below----
[1] c:\html-webmake-2.3>>webmake

Can't locate Text/EtText/LinkGlossary.pm in @INC (@INC contains: 
c:\perl\bin c:\htmlpp C:/perl/lib C:/perl/site/lib . C:/HTML-WebMake-
2.3/lib) at C:/HTML-WebMake-2.3/lib/HTML/WebMake/WMLinkGlossary.pm 
line 14.   

BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
C:/HTML-WebMake-2.3/lib/HTML/WebMake/WMLinkGlossary.pm line 14.  

Compilation failed in require at
C:/HTML-WebMake-2.3/lib/HTML/WebMake/Main.pm line 75.  

BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
C:/HTML-WebMake-2.3/lib/HTML/WebMake/Main.pm line 75.  

Compilation failed in require at C:\HTML-WebMake-2.3\webmake line 62. 
 
---end copied console output------

So renaming 'webmake.raw' to 'webmake' gets me a little farther but 
not far enough. I didn't think that EtText was an absolute 
requirement for webmake, but apparently it is. Any additional ideas?

Kind regards,

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Eric Pement - pemente at northpark.edu