[WM] WebMake won't install

[Duncan Cameron]

On 2002-08-20 Eric Pement wrote:
>At 12:54 AM 8/18/2002 -0500, Brad C. wrote:
>>I have been trying this on and off for two days now and I can't get it to
>>install.
>>
>>perl Makefile.PL tells me it can't find Text::EtText and when I get around
>>to the point I could "make test" it fails 99% of the tests. I have installed
>>Text::EtText MANY times to MANY different locations, and have changed the
>>paths in as many places as I could come up with. Either something is hard
>>coded to read from the system folders or something is just broken.
>
>   I thought someone would answer you already, but since nobody else has,
>I guess I'll give it a hand. I run Win98 SE and also Win2K, using ActivePerl
>on both systems, and have also had a terrible install problem with WebMake,
>just like yours.
>
>   Perl experts can figure it out, but I'm not that much of an expert. But
>here's the fix. Contrary to the documentation that Webmake provides, the
>Text-EtText module is required for Webmake and must be installed first.
>On my systems, it's installed as C:\Text-EtText-2.3\.  Then you install
>Webmake, but don't try any "make" routines.
>
>   Then go to the C:\Text-EtText-2.3\lib\Text folder and copy that folder
>and all of its subdirectories to the Windows clipboard. Paste that folder
>into C:\HTML-Webmake-2.3\lib directory, which already has exactly one
>folder in it now, "HTML". When you'd done with the Windows paste operation,
>you should have two folders, "HTML" and "Text" both within the
>"C:\HTML-Webmake-2.3\lib" folder. Beneath "Text" there should be "EtText.pm"
>plus an "Etext" folder with 5 files within it.
>
>   Then (as the docs suggest), you download "nmake.exe" from Microsoft,
>rename it to "make.exe", and you can run the make install and make tests.
>When you run it, you should get a 97-99% success rate. I didn't see a
>100% success rate, but the install substantially improved.
>
>   I agree that this is a problem that not only needs fixing, but is
>probably preventing Webmake from reaching a wider group of users and
>code supporters.  Hope this helps.

I did send a response to this but it appears to have disappeared
into the ether!

If Text-EText is installed within your 'normal' Perl directory
structure then it should be found, just as the standard Perl
modules are.  What Eric has described is what I have also done,
just unzipped the Webmake distribution into its own folder, and
then added the EText module into the lib subsirectory.  That
works fine.

I agree that we need a proper Windoze installation, ala Active
State ppm. 

Regards,
Duncan Cameron