configure error - qtbase/configure not found. Did you forget to run init-repository?

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The nmake failed so I guess I'm back to square one. Regardless, I'd like to build it all, so that doesn't matter all that much.

I haven't been following the git guide at http://qt-project.org/wiki/Building_Qt_5_from_Git . I just downloaded the whole 270 mb of source from Qt-projects. When I unpack it, there's no init-repository script for me to run with perl.

If, however, I choose to go the git route, the init-repository is indeed there, but when I run perl init-repository , the following occurs:

perl init-repository
"GetOptionsFromArray" is not exported by the Getopt::Long module
Can't continue after import errors at init-repository line 201
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at init-repository line 201.

perl init-repository
"GetOptionsFromArray" is not exported by the Getopt::Long module
Can't continue after import errors at init-repository line 201
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at init-repository line 201.

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Don't git and perl init-repositories simply get me to where I was previously, having downloaded the source, or does something else happen during the init-repository phase?