On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 10:39:39PM +0100, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote: > >What version of MakeMaker generated this Makefile? > > # It was generated automatically by MakeMaker version > # 6.10_07 (Revision: 1.117) from the contents of > > That is one from perl-5.8.1-RC? that I had at the time I built the perl > there.
New enough. > >What version of Win32 is this? The max length in MakeMaker for Win9X is set > >to 2500 but its 31K for anything else. > > AFAIK (and I am not a Win32 person) the max length is 1024 regardless of > version - shows what I know. Where did you get those numbers from? Both numbers came from empirical testing. The former on my own Win98 machine. The latter from somebody else's Win2000 machine. > This is WindowsXP Home Edition, with some wonderously self-selected updates > it decided it wanted from HQ. Hmmm. What does perl -wle "print Win32::IsWin95 ? 'Win95' : 'Not Win95'" say? If its not considered Win95 (which it probably isn't) then its using the max limit set in MM_Win32, ie. 32K. For reference, ExtUtils::MM_Win32::max_exec_len() and corresponding methods in MM_Win95 is controlling this. What does perl -MPOSIX -wle "print &POSIX::ARG_MAX" say? If that works then it can be used instead of hard coded guesses. Failing all that, try some tweaking of the hard coded value in ExtUtils::MM_Win32::max_exec_len(). At the very least we can get something that works in WinXP. > Anyway Steve has fixed the immediate problem by pointing out many > of the files in demos are obsolete (he owns that subdir) so he > has deleted them and all is well again. I'm concerned about the general problem. If Tk no longer has one, could you try something traditionally enormous like bioperl? -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ gigaconway: a hypothetical unit of mind expansion, so disturbing it is likely to change the fundemental nature of the universe. Some contend that gigaconway events, while rare, are much cheaper to produce than antiprotons, nuclear weapons or even XML specifications, and start at US$60,000 each. If you believe gigaconway events are indeed possible, please send your tax deductable contributions to: The Conway Fund, c/o Yet Another Society http://www.yetanother.org/ -- Ziggy
