RE: OpenVMS can't get past configure

2002-03-17 Thread Brent Dax
Michael G Schwern: # Using 5.005_03 on OpenVMS 7.3... # # # Determining if your C compiler is actually gcc (this could # take a while): # # # Your C compiler is not gcc. # # # Probing Perl 5's configuration to determine which headers you # have (this could # take a while on slow machines)... #

RE: OpenVMS can't get past configure

2002-03-17 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 10:13 AM -0800 3/17/02, Brent Dax wrote: # Probing Perl 5's configuration to determine which headers you # have (this could # take a while on slow machines)... # Out of memory! # %SYSTEM-F-ABORT, abort Lines in question: foreach(grep {/^i_/} keys %Config) { $c{$_}=$Config{$_};

RE: OpenVMS can't get past configure

2002-03-17 Thread Brent Dax
Dan Sugalski: # At 10:13 AM -0800 3/17/02, Brent Dax wrote: # # Probing Perl 5's configuration to determine which headers you # # have (this could # # take a while on slow machines)... # # Out of memory! # # %SYSTEM-F-ABORT, abort # # Lines in question: # # # foreach(grep {/^i_/} keys %Config)

Re: OpenVMS can't get past configure

2002-03-17 Thread Josh Wilmes
I suspect that it's not that VMS can't handle it- it's more likely that VMS does a better job of placing quotas on memory usage than other OSes. There's probably something analogous to ulimit which would fix the issue, but requiring that in order to build parrot isn't really reasonable. If we

RE: OpenVMS can't get past configure

2002-03-17 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 11:52 AM -0800 3/17/02, Brent Dax wrote: Dan Sugalski: # At 10:13 AM -0800 3/17/02, Brent Dax wrote: # # Probing Perl 5's configuration to determine which headers you # # have (this could # # take a while on slow machines)... # # Out of memory! # # %SYSTEM-F-ABORT, abort # # Lines in

RE: OpenVMS can't get past configure

2002-03-17 Thread Melvin Smith
personal dislike for VMS. I don't know enough about VMS to form an opinion on it--its popular days were before my time. ;^) I never cared for the VMS command shell (I think it was DCL, been a few years since I worked on it), but there is a lot to be learned from the VMS architecture itself.

RE: [PATCH Configure.pl] (still broken) Re: OpenVMS can't get past configure

2002-03-17 Thread Brent Dax
Michael G Schwern: # On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 10:13:58AM -0800, Brent Dax wrote: # Lines in question: # # # foreach(grep {/^i_/} keys %Config) { # $c{$_}=$Config{$_}; # $c{headers}.=defineifdef((/^i_(.*)$/)); # } # # I think VMS is too lame to handle the grep line. Honestly, #

Re: [PATCH Configure.pl] (still broken) Re: OpenVMS can't get past configure

2002-03-17 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 05:06:35PM -0800, Brent Dax wrote: # Checking some things by compiling and running another small C # program (this # could take a while): # # Building ./testparrotsizes.cfrom testparrotsizes_c.in... # # # #include parrot/parrot.h # #include