[WM] WebMake won't install

[Eric Pement]

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.


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Eric Pement - eric.pement at moody.edu
Education Technical Services, MBI