On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 03:36:39PM -0400, John E. Malmberg wrote: > How do I reproduce this? > > I pulled down perl-5.9.2 and started a build and it fails with: > > CC/DECC/NOANSI_ALIAS > /Include=[]/Standard=Relaxed_ANSI/Prefix=All/Obj=.obj/List > > #$d_sitecustomize USE_SITECUSTOMIZE /**/ > .^ > %CC-W-BADDIRECTIVE, "$d_sitecustomize" is an invalid preprocessor > directive, an > at line number 3462 in file PERL_BUILD_ROOT:[000000]config.h;1 > %MMK-F-ERRUPD, error status %X10B91260 occurred when updating target > MINIPERLMA > 23-JUL-2005 15:28:53
The perl 5.9.2 release is now somewhat out of date. That bug has been fixed. And new ones introduced instead :-( The best way to get the current source is with rsync. The master source repository is in perforce, and there isn't anonymous access to that. We don't tend to make snapshots, I think partly because everyone actively developing is very happy with rsync, and partly because snapshots seem to generate near zero feedback, suggesting the time is better spent elsewhere. (I suspect that the widespread use of rsync helps explain the lack of interest in specific snapshots. In effect every commit gets treated like a snapshot) There are a few paragraphs on what can be got with rsync in perlhack.pod: http://search.cpan.org/~rgarcia/perl-5.9.2/pod/perlhack.pod#Keeping_in_sync but most simply if you run rsync -avz rsync://ftp.linux.activestate.com/perl-current/ perl/ you will get a local directory perl/ containing the current development sources. If you build that you should see the same problems as Abe is reporting. Nicholas Clark
