At 11:24 PM +0200 5/29/06, Abe Timmerman wrote: >Hi, > >Although we discussed this change and found it should be safe, I now find that >it isn't on VAX/VMS V7.2 > >So here is one that works on the VAX and still makes Porting/checkcfgvar.pl >see the sig_name_init symbol. (May need some real VMSers' eyes.)
Thanks, applied with one small modification to a comparison operator (see below) as #28334. > >--- configure.com.orig Mon May 29 22:32:02 2006 >+++ configure.com Mon May 29 22:38:33 2006 >@@ -6281,7 +6281,14 @@ > $ WC "shortsize='" + shortsize + "'" > $ WC "shrplib='define'" > $ WC "sig_name='" + sig_name + "'" >-$ WC "sig_name_init='" + sig_name_init + "'" >+$ IF (f$length(sig_name_init) .GES. 1024) .GES. is a string comparsion in DCL. .GE. is what you want to do numeric comparison, as the following example proves: $ write sys$output 2 .ges. 1024 1 $ write sys$output 2 .ge. 1024 0 >+$ THEN >+$ tmp = "sig_name_init='" + sig_name_init + "'" >+$ WC/symbol tmp >+$ DELETE/SYMBOL tmp >+$ ELSE >+$ WC "sig_name_init='" + sig_name_init + "'" >+$ ENDIF > $ WC "sig_num='" + sig_num + "'" > $ WC "sig_num_init='" + sig_num_init + "'" > $ WC "sig_count='" + sig_count + "'" > > > >After applying this patch I get this error with MMK: > >CC/DECC /Include=[]/Standard=Relaxed_ANSI/Prefix=All/Obj=GLOBALS.obj/NoList/ >FLOAT=G_FLOAT/Define=PERL_CORE GLOBALS.C > */ >%VCG-W-BADPSECT, The program section(psect) specified by this statement has > conflicting 'nowrite' attributes with another definition > of the same program section. > At line number 42 in DISK$USER_2: >[TIMMERMAN.KLAD.PERL-CURRENT]GLOBALS.C;1. > >%VCG-I-SUMMARY, Completed with 0 error(s), 1 warning(s), and > 0 informational messages. > At line number 42 in DISK$USER_2: >[TIMMERMAN.KLAD.PERL-CURRENT]GLOBALS.C;1. Thanks for trying to keep the VAX fires burning. To pursue this, I think you'd need to do a debug build and look through globals.lis to see where the conflicting definitions are coming from. -- ________________________________________ Craig A. Berry mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "... getting out of a sonnet is much more difficult than getting in." Brad Leithauser
