On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 06:44:12PM -0700, Peter Prymmer wrote:
>
> On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
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> > On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 02:01:04AM +0100, Graham Barr wrote:
> > > On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 07:52:03PM -0500, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 01:44:50AM +0100, Graham Barr wrote:
> > > > > It should not matter if you have not built the XS. The .pm files contain
> > > > > pure perl fallbacks for that case, so they should still be tested.
> > > >
> > > > It's perfectly possible that I broke the fallback behaviour when I did
> > > > the integration, I didn't test that much.
> > >
> > > Ah, yes. I guess the .pm's live in the ext directory. But if the extn is
> > > not built they are not installed. So you won't have the pure pperl
> >
> > Well, for the 9762 snapshot I incidentally added the *::Util in VMS
> > to the list of extensions to be attempted :-)
>
> Darn. extension building is broken in 9718, 9742 and adding things to the
> appropriate DCL variable will hurt not help (we are currently bumping
> into a shell limitation on VMS). I have a patch, but it needs
Sorry about that... could the extension finding be made somehow dynamic?
> further development. Hmmm I am seriously short of time, but here it is
> with respect to 9742 ... (just expect more patching later)
>
> Especial thanks to Charles Lane and Sebastion Bazley for their helpful
> discussion on this patch. Note to Charles: this does not implement multi
> line extensions=' assignment in config.sh but does conceal the problems
> with the current length of extensions. Since were at 276 to 300
> characters in the extensions symbol now we have a comfortable factor of 3
> times more room for more extensions till we hit the 1024 limit.
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