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On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 11:38:46PM -0600, Craig A. Berry wrote: > > At 10:55 PM -0600 12/18/00, Craig A. Berry wrote: > > >At 4:55 PM -0500 12/18/00, Dan Sugalski wrote: > > >>At 03:52 PM 12/18/00 -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > > >>> > Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 6 subversion undef) > > >>>configuration: > > >>> > > >>>subversion undef? > > >> > > >>Looks like configure.com needs another whacking about... > > > > > >The problem appears to be the following commented-out line in configure.com: > > > > > >$! WC "PERL_SUBVERSION='" + subversion + "'" ! VMS specific to > > >descrip_mms.template > > > > > >Anyone know why this is commented out or what descrip_mms.template > > >has to do with it? > > > > It's been almost a month, I haven't heard a reply to this question, > > and our subversion is still missing. I say we put it back in and place > > the burden of explanation on whoever commented it out in the first > > place. > > It seems to have been the "Change 6613 by jhi@alpha on 2000/08/14 > 13:45:33", "VMS configure.com update continues." I *think* I got > it from Peter Prymmer, unfortunately I didn't seem to document it > back then... It might have come from me although I don't recall it very well. It might have been fallout from a change in patchlevel.h in the 5.6.0 release of some sort (confusion over the intent of subversion vs api_subversion?). FWIW here are the versions that a unix box has: % grep -i version config.sh api_subversion='0' api_version='5' api_versionstring='5.005' ccversion='V5.6-082' gccversion='' ignore_versioned_solibs='' inc_version_list='5.005/alpha-dec_osf 5.005' inc_version_list_init='"5.005/alpha-dec_osf","5.005",0' pm_apiversion='5.005' subversion='0' version='5.7.0' versiononly='undef' xs_apiversion='5.005' PERL_VERSION=7 PERL_SUBVERSION=0 PERL_API_VERSION=5 PERL_API_SUBVERSION=0 The other possiblilty is that it was to head off an unitialized variable warning in DCL. For example: % type subver.com $ WC := write sys$output $! without initialization $ WC "subversion='" + subversion + "'" $! with initialization to empty string $ subversion = "" $ WC "subversion='" + subversion + "'" $! with initialization to nonempty string $ subversion = "0" $ WC "subversion='" + subversion + "'" % @subver %DCL-W-UNDSYM, undefined symbol - check validity and spelling \SUBVERSION\ subversion='' subversion='0' And it could very well be that a bug in configure.com prevents the $ subversion="0" assignment from kicking in. Perhaps another thing worth testing is what munchconfig.exe and descrip.mms would do with: PERL_SUBVERSION=0 rather than with the 'single quotation marks': PERL_SUBVERSION='0' I'll try to look into it. Peter PrymmerThread Previous | Thread Next