At 7:51 AM +0100 12/14/05, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: >On 12/14/05, John E. Malmberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > $MMK realclean >> >> deletes [.lib.pod]*.pod;* >> >> This removes [.lib.Pod]Simple.pod because of the confusion. > >Oh, I wasn't aware that the VMS build process created this directory. >Other OSes build the tools directly under pod/ or utils/, is there a >specific reason why VMS doesn't do it ?
We do build them under pod/ and utils/, but then we copy both the utilities and the pods to lib/pod/ near the end of the build process, creating the pod directory if necessary. The only reason I can think of that we did that is that once upon a time the only way to "install" Perl on VMS was to build it and point to the build directory. We could change the way this works, but I think the easiest thing to do is just copy what Cygwin and Darwin already do, namely have installperl put things in lib/pods rather than lib/pod and make the corresponding change to vms/descrip_mms.template, which should just be a global replace of [.lib.pod] with [.lib.pods]. I'll work up a patch. -- ________________________________________ Craig A. Berry mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "... getting out of a sonnet is much more difficult than getting in." Brad Leithauser
