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Forgive me this newbie question.

After installing ActivePerl for Windows. I try to understand the command perl configure .... with the command perldoc perl. But didn't found anything about configure option. I also try the command perldoc perl configure. But It doesn't work. Shows No documentation found for "configure".

Joe.wang
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  • where are you seeing "configure" used? – ysth Oct 30 '14 at 02:54
  • It seems `configure` is a perl script ? Because I found configure.pl in the same folder of Perl.exe. – Joe.wang Oct 30 '14 at 02:54
  • @ysth the whole command line is `perl Configure VC-WIN32 --prefix=C:\Build-OpenSSL-VC-32.` – Joe.wang Oct 30 '14 at 03:12
  • @cHao found `configure.pl` file in the `bin` – Joe.wang Oct 30 '14 at 03:14
  • Forgive me I can't read perl script. What is the configure.pl doing ?Please tell me more about it .thanks. – Joe.wang Oct 30 '14 at 03:15
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    It is my mistake. The configure not belong to perl environment. It belong to the openssl package. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21697273/cannot-open-perl-script-configure-no-such-file-or-directory. – Joe.wang Oct 30 '14 at 05:58
  • Please be aware that `Configure`, `configure` and `configure.pl` are three different filenames. They could be three different files. – reinierpost Oct 30 '14 at 08:52

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From http://community.activestate.com/node/7573 it looks to me like the Configure being talked about is a script included with and used to build the OpenSSL source; it is not part of perl or the perl distribution.

Though the perl source does include a Configure script, that is a shell script used to build perl itself, and nothing to do with the Configure you are looking for.

I don't know what the configure.pl you see is, but it is also likely not what you are looking for.

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