> At 1:50 PM +0100 2/2/06, Frans Slothouber wrote: >>Hoi >> >>I get the following two compilation errors for >>5_8_8_RC1 >>This is under DEC C V5.6-003 on OpenVMS Alpha V7.1-2 > > Thanks for the report. v5.6 is now about a nine-year-old compiler > and I don''t see much value in trying to backport to it, nor do I > have the facilities to do so. v6.4 builds Perl just fine, was the > first version to include significant C99 support, and has been out > for about five or six years. I think that would be a reasonable > minimum version. I wouldn't be surprised if v6.0 and v6.2 also work > ok, but I don't have any way to test that. It would be nice if we > could state with some certainty what the minimum compiler version > needs to be in order to build Perl, but without a much wider array of > build reports, that's not doable.
I can provide build reports for: DEC C V5.6-003 on OpenVMS VAX V7.1 Compaq C V6.4-008 on OpenVMS Alpha V7.1-2 hp C T7.1-003 on OpenVMS IA64 V8.2-1 DEC C V5.6-003 on OpenVMS Alpha V7.1-2 Will ask here how easy it is for us to migrate all systems to V6.4. If we can't then I don't mind doing the back-porting. Will report back when there's more info. Have fun, Frans.
