[WM] Invalid argument

Thu Dec 26 14:18:02 GMT 2002

I am new to WebMake and need some help correcting an error. When I
invoke WebMake from the command line ("webmake" with no arguments, no 
options) while in my working directory I get:

mkdir //.webmake: Invalid argument at 
C:/Perl/site/lib/HTML/WebMake/Main.pm line 325

Main.pm line 325 happens to read "(-d $dir) or mkpath ($dir);", but I 
don't for a minute believe that the code is buggy. Surely I'm doing 
something wrong.

In my working directory I have one file, index.wmk, which is taken more 
or less literally from the "How to Migrate to WebMake" section of the 
documentation. The full text of index.wmk follows:

<webmake>
<content name=page_template>
<html>
   <head>
     <title>$[this.title]</title>
   </head>
   <body>
     <h1>$[this.title]</h1>
     <hr />
     ${page_text}
     <hr />
   </body>
</html>
</content>
<content name="document1.txt">
   <wmmeta name="title">Your title here</wmmeta>
   <p>
     Your content here.
   </p>
</content>
<content name=out_helper>
   <{set page_text="${${WebMake.OutName}.txt}" }>
   ${page_template}
</content>
<out name="document1" file="document1.html">${out_helper}</out>
</webmake>

(index.wmk ends)

If I understand correctly, the above should produce one file, 
document1.html, output to the working directory.

I am using WebMake 2.3 from the Windows ppm downloaded from the WebMake 
site. My perl is ActivePerl 5.6, but don't think I know anything about 
perl: I installed it specifically for WebMake. All is running on Windows 
2000 (a management decision, not my preference.) I have invoked WebMake 
as both normal user and from the administrative account with identical 
results, so it's not a permissions problem.

What things should I be looking at to correct this problem?
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