On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 06:56:02PM -0500, Craig A. Berry wrote: > At 1:25 AM -0400 4/11/02, Michael G Schwern wrote: > >This syncs up bleadperl with 5.90_01. > > > >All the new PREFIX logic is not going to work on VMS. I don't know > >what the right way is to handle it, but Peter seems to have some > >ideas. So I'll leave it up to the vmsperl folks. I'm out of tuits > >anyway. All the logic is in ExtUtils::MM_Unix->init_INSTALL. > > There's more to this than I thought because it's not just that the > new PREFIX functionality doesn't work. All the INSTALL* and *VENDOR* > macros are broken. There will be no installing of extensions on VMS > using MM 5.90 until this is resolved. No doubt this can all be > thrashed out and ported properly, but we're not there yet. There is > a patch attached that gets things from badly broken to moderately > broken; it only changes configure.com and does not delve into any of > the MM stuff.
Okay, now we are then only moderately broken. I think that counts as success. -- $jhi++; # http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ # There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. # It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen
