On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> Peter,
>
> I've taken your new configure.com for a spin and it seems to work just fine,
> though all I've done is a -des so far. Thanks for posting the sprintf.t
> fix; I did notice a failure there and will try this as soon as I get a chance.
Thanks for testing it. I guess I'll count that as one positive vote,
with no nays, and all others abstentions :-)
> If anyone wants to try Chuck Lane's piping mods with perl@6409, you'll need
> to patch the patch first. It looks weird, but it does (almost) work. The
> vmsish.t part seems to confuse patch, so you might just want to chop it out
> of the original patch since it's already in the current source. It might
> also be easy enough to just edit the patch to add the argument pTHX to the
> first instance of vms_execfree() and aTHX to the other two. Without this,
> patch gets confused and fails on a very large and important hunk of Chuck's
> code. You'll find the original patch at
> <http://www.crinoid.com/perl560/htmlx>.
>
> --- vmspipe010_20000524.patch;-0 Thu Aug 3 19:47:59 2000
> +++ vmspipe010_20000524.patch Thu Aug 3 20:01:39 2000
> @@ -366,7 +366,7 @@
> }
Thanks for that. I will try to give it a whirl soon now. I should
point out that a couple of updated kits have been posted to p5p
apparently due to problems with rsyncd at activestate(? They just
moved across town into new offices, one wonders if they are scouting
out locations for the big Microsoft move to Vancouver that everyone
likes to spread rumours about ;-).
I have posted a pointer to the newest kit and a symlink to my latest
rendition of configure.com at:
http://www.best.com/~pvhp/vms/cfgperl_6529/
I have no idea yet which of the other patches to 6409 are or are not
in the 6529 kit. I'll see about fitting Chuck Lane's stuff into
6529 perhaps tomorrow. Oh I've also posted some ramblings about
configure.com at:
http://www.best.com/~pvhp/vms/configure_com_faq.html
have fun.
Peter Prymmer
