On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 03:29:03PM -0800, Jan Dubois wrote: > On Tue, 08 Dec 2009, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: > > > > In perl.git, the branch blead has been updated > > > > <http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/13290fcd82823e130109fca5199c99fb886e29eb?hp=958e6d4b516d826d7139a8ead > > 2b1054c5f8b9eda> > > > > - Log ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > commit 13290fcd82823e130109fca5199c99fb886e29eb > > Author: Tony Cook <tony@develop-help.com> > > + $^O =~ /^(MSWin32|cygwin|uwin|dos|epoc)$/ > > + and skip("Can't inplace edit without backups on $^O", 4); > > I suspect OS/2 belongs in that list as well. You're right, from hints/os2.sh: aout_ccflags="-DDOSISH -DPERL_IS_AOUT -DOS2=2 -DEMBED -I. $_defemxcrtrev -D__ST_MT_ERRNO__" The DOSISH define is used to decide whether to implement no-backup inplace editing. I"ll make a patch (tonight probably) if someone doesn't beat me to it. TonyThread Previous | Thread Next