On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> Thanks so much for posting this. At first blush it looks like it has all
> the File::Temp stuff (except for what I don't have working yet :-( ) and the
> b.t patch, but not the cgi-function.t patch and only one of two hunks from
> the descrip_mms.template patch. The descrip template in 6529 has
> "[.lib]lib.pm" in the LIBPREREQ target instead of utils2 -- I'm not sure
> which is better or if we need both.
Hmm... I was able to build without altering [.vms]descrip_mms.template.
Thanks for turning this up. I'll have to take a closer look.
> >Oh I've also posted some ramblings about
> >configure.com at:
> >
> > http://www.best.com/~pvhp/vms/configure_com_faq.html
>
> Hardly a ramble. This really puts things in perspective for those of us who
> didn't know the whole story, and should enlighten those folks on comp.os.vms
> who loudly but naively complain that configuration is necessary at all. As
> an erstwhile English professor, I've taken the liberty of attaching a patch
> to the page with some typo fixes :-).
>
> The only thing that tripped me up content-wise was where you describe
> command verb set-up:
>
> ". . . the PERL DCL command verb (the latter
> done with the PERL.CLD file that configure.com will write out if you are not
> using a command verb to invoke perl"
>
> Should the "not" be there? Won't the CLD file only get written if you *are*
> using a command verb? Or did you want to say "not using a foreign command
> symbol to invoke Perl"?
I think the latter was what I had in mind when I wrote the "not". Thanks
too for that. I'll let you know how the patching went when I get home.
Peter Prymmer
