"Sisyphus" wrote in perl.makemaker : >> All I need to know is if perl's bundled MM_Unix.pm should be patched as >> per the link above, or if the problem lies with PDL.
I commented on that bug: the MM_Unix patch doesn't look correct to me, and moreover PDL builds correctly with bleadperl's MakeMaker. > Afaik, the problem is with MM_Unix.pm, but the latest PDL sources (from the > CVS repository) incorporate a workaround that ... ummm .... should work > around that problem - so patching MM_Unix.pm should be unnecessary. > > If you find that the latest PDL sources (from the CVS repository - see > http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=612 ) still won't build, please provide > the PDL-porters list with details. We (PDL developers/maintainers) can't > patch MM_Unix.pm but hopefully we *can* patch PDL so that any MM_Unix.pm > bugs don't prevent PDL from building. Do you have a link for a patch implementing the said workaround ? I'd rather avoid installing a PDL from CVS... -- Only what happens every three hundred nights is true. -- Borges
