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At 10:58 PM -0700 4/10/03, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> > >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.
It must be a holdover from before installperl worked on VMS (which I
think means pre-5.5.3) so a cleaned-up build directory had to
function as an installed Perl. Probably all the copying of pod/ to
lib/pod is in there for the same reason. If we could get rid of
these two things, we would probably shrink descrip_mms.template by
25% and have less maintenance to do as new .h and .pod files are
added. It's looking to me like the benefits probably outweigh the
risks; are you ready to start swinging the axe?
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