Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] pod2html not found

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From: Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 23:39:38 +0100
Betsy Riggins wrote:

I just started trying to work with the ethereal code. I haven't made any code modifications yet but am trying to get a successful build environment (windows 2000).

Things are going better than I expected and I'd like to express my thanks for all the great documentation that is available.

I am hitting a problem though :

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility   Version 6.00.8168.0
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1988-1998. All rights reserved.

        rm -rf 0.10.14-SVN-17194
        cd ..
        cd doc
bash pod2html --title="ethereal-filter - The Etherea l Network Analyzer 0.10.14-SVN-17194" --noindex ethereal-filter.pod > ethereal-filter.html
*bash: pod2html: No such file or directory*
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'bash' : return code '0x7f'
Stop.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\bin\N
MAKE.EXE"' : return code '0x2'
Stop.


pod2html exists in c:\cygwin\bin and in c:\perl\bin it is a .bat though. Should bash be able to find/execute a BAT file ? Is there a recommended distribution of perl which would hae pod2html implemented using something other than a bat file ?
in cygwin type:
which pod2html
gives me:
/usr/bin/pod2html
and c:\cygwin\bin\pod2html should be a perl script starting with: #!/usr/bin/perl and:
which perl
should return:
/usr/bin/perl

As you mention both cygwin and a plain (ActiveState?) win32 perl installation, I would think they interfere with each other through the PATH settings.

I'm only using cygwin's perl and don't know the way to fix your situation.

Regards, ULFL