H.Merijn Brand wrote asking: !BTW could it harm to add "util rt posix4" to configure.com ?
This is an excellent question and thank you for asking. However, I strongly suspect that the answer is "no". That is, we probably do not need to check for those libraries. The library probing in configure.com is a bit different than in Configure, one reason being that the presence of a library in the file system is not necessarily an indication that the facility is available to perl. Hence compilation and linking are explicitly done (and then only for the odd TCP/IP library). The other portion of the reason is that I do not think anything equivalent to libutil librt or libposix4 has been ported to VMS, hence checking for them is likely to prove fruitless (the OS ships with a lot of run time libraries, I am running VMS V7.3-1 and that is the latest commercially available release). If someone did make them available they'd likely undergo a renaming of some sort (to cite an example libc.so on VMS may be known as DECC$SHR.EXE). The shareable images in my SYS$LIBRARY include: $ dir/size/date sys$library:util*.exe Directory SYS$COMMON:[SYSLIB] UTIL$SHARE.EXE;1 124 18-JUL-2002 19:46:04.24 Total of 1 file, 124 blocks. $ dir sys$library:*posix*.exe %DIRECT-W-NOFILES, no files found where the former is likely the UTIL$ run time library not a port of libutil.so. Peter Prymmer
