At 18:49 +0200 2002.05.23, Thomas Wegner wrote: >Great, thanks much for your work. I'm now a proud owner of MacPerl 5.7.3 >:-). But puh, 14 MB to download -- I'm not amused.
Dang, that is big. I don't know why. Not much I can do about it -- unless there's something in there that shouldn't be, that I missed -- except for maybe use DropStuff 6 instead of 4.x next time (I find certain things in 5/6 buggy, so I still use 4 for most things). >HTML::Parser won't build, because the file "hctype.h" is empty, so I had to >run > > perl mkhctype > hctype.h > >to create a valid header file. I can't explain why this file was empty, so you >may want to check this. The rest of the built went fine. Hm. Odd. I'll figure it out. It worked the other night when I did a fresh build. >Then, with a fresh perl tool in my hands, I've run some scripts and got an >unexpected warning from File::Copy. Here you'll find the following lines: > >my $macfiles; >if ($^O eq 'MacOS') { > $macfiles = eval { require Mac::MoreFiles }; > warn 'Mac::MoreFiles could not be loaded; using non-native syscopy' > if $^W; # <=== >} > >IMHO (please correct me, if I'm wrong), that should better be > >my $macfiles; >if ($^O eq 'MacOS') { > undef $@; > $macfiles = eval { require Mac::MoreFiles }; > warn 'Mac::MoreFiles could not be loaded; using non-native syscopy' > if ($@ && $^W ); >} > >This way, you'll not get a warning, when Mac::MoreFiles is correctly >installed, >right? Yessir. Dunno how that got through. I'll take a look and patch appropriately. >Next, I've built MacPerl.MrC -- no problem. Building MacPerl.SC failed, as >expected. I've got the following link error: > >### Link: Error: Type information larger than a page. Try using the -pg >option: (Error 87) A type ('interpreter') was too big to write > >I think I've found a solution for this problem. As the error message suggests, >I've used the -pg switch, which sets the SYM page size. The size is 4096 by >default. So I've doubled the size to 8192, and afterwards, linking went >fine -- >hurra. I'll send a patch to :macperl:Makefile.mk in a separate message. Thanks. Matthias also suggested turning off symbolic debugging (-sym off), but I never got that far. >So, these are my first impressions and remarks. Now, some testing is in order, >I think. :) Thanks, -- Chris Nandor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pudge.net/ Open Source Development Network [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://osdn.com/