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.

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