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? -- ________________________________________ Craig A. Berry mailto:craigberry@mac.com "... getting out of a sonnet is much more difficult than getting in." Brad LeithauserThread Previous