Perl-5.8-win32-bin-0.8.exe installation fails

I've tried using the default the install program uses (which is
windows\temp for some strange reason) or creating a new directory for
the top-level.  Either way, when I reach the "Configure" window, the
"Perl directory:" and "Apache2 directory:" textboxes are already
filled in as "..PERL/BIN".  When I click the "Configure" button, this
error box appears:

"Perl configuation failed

!  Please give the top-level Perl directory."


?

Unknown Poster wrote:

> I've tried using the default the install program uses (which is
> windows\temp for some strange reason) or creating a new directory for
> the top-level.  Either way, when I reach the "Configure" window, the
> "Perl directory:" and "Apache2 directory:" textboxes are already
> filled in as "..PERL/BIN".  When I click the "Configure" button, this
> error box appears:
>
> "Perl configuation failed
>
> !  Please give the top-level Perl directory."

Please give more information:  What is your platform (Windoze what?),
and whose Perl distribution is it?  Sounds like it might be
apache.org's.  If so, did you do what it says to do in
Perl-5.8-win32-bin-0.8.readme ?

--
Bob Walton
Email: http://bwalton.com/cgi-bin/emailbob.pl

Bob Walton <see@sig.invalid> wrote in message news:<4157063e$1_2@127.0.0.1>...
> Unknown Poster wrote:
> 
>
> Please give more information:  What is your platform (Windoze what?),
> and whose Perl distribution is it?  Sounds like it might be
> apache.org's.  If so, did you do what it says to do in
> Perl-5.8-win32-bin-0.8.readme ?


It's the apache Win32 binary with Perl, mod_perl, etc.  I'm using
Windows ME.

The readme file at http://www.reverse.net/pub/apache/p...-bin-0.8.readme
really isn't much help because it just states what it supposed to
happen,
rather that what to do to install and configure it.