On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 12:19:55AM -0500, Craig A. Berry wrote: > At 5:45 PM -0700 4/10/03, Michael G Schwern wrote: > >Still trying to build HTML::Parser. > > Most if not all extension building problems on VMS with 5.8.0 were fixed > by change #17688: > > <http://public.activestate.com/cgi-bin/perlbrowse?patch=17688&action=patch> D'oh! I was looking at 5.8.0. > >The "copy some .h files into a temp CORE" logic in vms/descrip_mms.template > >has this comment: > > > ># CORE subset for MakeMaker, so we can build Perl without sources > ># Should move to VMS installperl when we get one > > > >I'm not sure what it means to build Perl without sources... > > I'm guessing that means to build a new Perl with an additional > extension statically linked into it. Isn't it possible to do that > without the core C code? Damned if I know, I've never built a staticly linked Perl before. > >but AFAIK > >VMS is now using installperl. Is the Big List Of .h Files To Copy To > >A Temp Core logic below it obsolete? > > Isn't the "temp core" where installperl gets them from? No, at least not on non-VMS. installperl normally just grabs *.h and a few other things from the top of the perl source directory. Look around lines 365-385 in installperl. There's special code from VMS which takes the files from lib/<arch>/<ver>/CORE/ instead. This is built when perl is built. Look around lines 1240-1400 in vms/descrip_mms.template. That temp CORE directory doesn't appear to be used for anything else. -- The key, my friend, is hash browns. http://www.goats.com/archive/980402.htmlThread Previous | Thread Next