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Marinna, >Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 17:10:16 -0400 (EDT) >From: Marinna Martini <address@hidden> >Organization: . >To: address@hidden (Steve Emmerson) >Subject: Re: 960417: trouble compiling netCDF >Keywords: 199604161516.AA18997 In the above message you wrote: > Hello Steve, > I may well take you up on your offer, but for now, while I wait for > someone else to port PERL 5 to DOS so I can try to use the PERL > extensions on DOS, I am trying to try it out on a UNIX > box, one running OSF. It won't compile. I get the following: > cd perl && perl Makefile.PL > "WriteMakefile" is not exported by the ExtUtils::MakeMaker module at > Makefile.PL line 2. > This seems to be unrelated to the OSF problem listed at Unidata's web > site. > Any clues? Yup. The version of perl(1) that you have is too old. You must have version 5.001, patchlevel 1e, at least. Here's our version: $ perl -v /dev/null This is perl, version 5.001 Unofficial patchlevel 1e. Copyright 1987-1994, Larry Wall Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License or the GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5.0 source kit. -------- Steve Emmerson <address@hidden>