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Postings from January 2004
On Fri 30 Jan 2004 18:18, Andrew Dougherty <doughera@lafayette.edu> wrote: > On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, H.Merijn Brand wrote: > > > On Fri 30 Jan 2004 14:44, Andrew Dougherty <doughera@lafayette.edu> wrote: > > > > > > > On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 08:09:48PM -0000, "Balcarras, Ron" <perlbug-followup@perl.org> wrote: > > > > > I am on a WIN2000 box - it has MKStool Kit on it. > > > > Configure is definitely not built to understand directory or file > > > names with spaces in them. It also assumes a mostly unix-like > > > environment. I'd be very surprised if this actually worked. > > > > Worth looking at? Do you think it's possible? > > I could give it a go. > > Dealing with spaces in filenames or directories is probably possible, but > almost certainly would takes lots of effort untangling multiple > levels of quoting inside evals. I suspect it'd be a lot of work. > > As for testing Configure with the MKStool Kit, I suppose it would be nice > in principle if it worked, but I don't see what advantage > it would offer over the existing pre-made win32 config.?? files. I also > don't know enough about the tool kit to know whether it's even remotely > possible. Hmm, anyone been working with the now free M$ transition kit recently posted on p5p? It's more likely to be a real environment than MKStoolkit. -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using perl-5.6.1, 5.8.0, & 5.9.x, and 806 on HP-UX 10.20 & 11.00, 11i, AIX 4.3, SuSE 8.2, and Win2k. http://www.cmve.net/~merijn/ http://archives.develooper.com/daily-build@perl.org/ perl-qa@perl.org send smoke reports to: smokers-reports@perl.org, QA: http://qa.perl.orgThread Previous