Re: [Expectperl-discuss] IO-TTy installation error on AIX

[<RGi...@a1...>]

> I had a similiar problem installing IO-Tty-1.0, but with "cpp".  On
> my Red Hat 6.2 box, I was told that it couldn't find "cpp".  Well,
> sure enough, "cpp" was in some exotic place so I added it to my
> PATH and tried again.  This time, I got the complaint that "cpp" 
> didn't like one of the options in its flags.  I modified Config.pm 
> to yank that offending option, and then the install went OK. 
> That was with Perl 5.6.1 - perhaps there are issues with the
> production of Config.pm?

Yes, that's a common problem, as I had to find out the past few days.  
The details are:  on RH6.2, perl is configured with gcc and due to some 
glitch, a compiler option is added to the cppflags, which is ignored by 
gcc's version of cpp, but unfortunately not by other cpps.  As I have 
learned, $Config{cpp} isn't really set to something useful after perl 
is configured, instead, $Config{cpprun} should be used.  Don't ask me 
why...

Anyway, I'll continue to fiddle around to get it portably running, in 
the meantime just remove the offending option...

HTH,

Roland
--
RGi...@cp...