[ic] Help?

[Mike Heins]

Quoting Stephen Andrew Misel (steve@misel.com):
> I just downloaded and installed InterChange and the ./configure program 
> dies with a perl syntax error.  Seems to be in Makefile.PL... any ideas?
> 
> -Steve
> 
> zeus:~/interchange-4.5.7$ ./configure
> 
>   Akopia Interchange Version 4.5.x Configuration
> 
>   Copyright 1996-2000 Akopia, Inc, <support@akopia.com>
> 
>   Interchange was originally based on Vend 0.2
>   Copyright 1995 Andrew M. Wilcox <awilcox@maine.com>
> 
>   Portions from Vend 0.3
>   Copyright 1995, 1996 Andrew M. Wilcox <awilcox@maine.com>
> 
>   Distributed under the GNU General Public License, see
>   the file Copying for license information.
> 
> Found Perl 5.00401 as /usr/bin/perl
> 
> If you get a CPAN error, rerun the configuration and it
> should go away.
> 
> syntax error at Makefile.PL line 554, near ") for "
> BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted at Makefile.PL line 793.
> make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
> make: *** No rule to make target `test'.  Stop.
> zeus:~/interchange-4.5.7$
> 
> 
> ... line 554 of Makefile.PL
> 
> install_file('.', $realdir, $_) for @sharefiles;
> 

Since there is a "require 5.005;" in the Makefile.PL, I would
question your distribution. Looks like someone may have hacked
on it.

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