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Re: Problems compiling Perl


---Mumit Khan <khan@xraylith.wisc.edu> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 22 Oct 1998 john_r_velman@mail.hac.com wrote:
> > 
> > 1.  Running Configure, it only stopped at every other question. 
This
> > is reported to happen on win95/98, but not on NT.  I have NT.  It
> > happened.  I followed the alternative procedure of putting in the
> > hint/ suggestion for config.sh, manually editing it.  (It didn't
seem
> > to have nearly enough questions.)  Then I ran sh Configure -d (non
> > interactive version).  
> 
> Does adding tty to CYGWIN32 variable help?
>   
>   $ export CYGWIN32="$CYGWIN32 tty"
>   $ ./Configure [ ... ]
> 

You must `SET CYGWIN32=%CYGWIN32% tty' before starting bash.  Setting
tty after starting bash will leave the parent process in notty and the
child in tty and you can get some strange results this way.

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