extensions/known_extensions and insanity (was Re: VMS, configure.com and nonxs_ext)

2009-09-27 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 10:33:02AM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 05:15:51PM -0500, Craig A. Berry wrote: There's also dynamic_ext, right? Shouldn't dynamic_ext plus nonxs_extensions equal known_extensions? Well, probably it should, but what actually happens is:

Re: extensions/known_extensions and insanity (was Re: VMS, configure.com and nonxs_ext)

2009-09-27 Thread Craig A. Berry
On Sep 27, 2009, at 1:26 PM, Nicholas Clark wrote: I *think I am here: 0: DynaLoader doesn't count as an extension 1: known_extensions are all known XS extensions 2: static_ext, dynamic_ext and nonxs_ext are actually what they say they are, assuming you were thinking about extensions we

Re: extensions/known_extensions and insanity (was Re: VMS, configure.com and nonxs_ext)

2009-09-27 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 03:04:38PM -0500, Craig A. Berry wrote: On Sep 27, 2009, at 1:26 PM, Nicholas Clark wrote: I *think I am here: 0: DynaLoader doesn't count as an extension 1: known_extensions are all known XS extensions 2: static_ext, dynamic_ext and nonxs_ext are actually what

Re: VMS, configure.com and nonxs_ext

2009-09-08 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 05:15:51PM -0500, Craig A. Berry wrote: On Sep 7, 2009, at 4:46 PM, Nicholas Clark wrote: On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 08:55:29PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: This might be rather a big favour request. This might be easier than I first thought It occurred to me we

Re: VMS, configure.com and nonxs_ext

2009-09-08 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 08:55:29PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: (I'm not sure why the Configure shell code contains tests for .c too - historical reasons? No, recent reasons. Building Win32CORE on Cygwin: http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/fefb2940d28bc57fa38371e2 Nicholas Clark

Re: VMS, configure.com and nonxs_ext

2009-09-08 Thread Craig A. Berry
On Sep 8, 2009, at 4:33 AM, Nicholas Clark wrote: On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 05:15:51PM -0500, Craig A. Berry wrote: There's also dynamic_ext, right? Shouldn't dynamic_ext plus nonxs_extensions equal known_extensions? Well, probably it should, but what actually happens is: extensions is

Re: VMS, configure.com and nonxs_ext

2009-09-08 Thread Craig A. Berry
On Sep 8, 2009, at 4:34 AM, Nicholas Clark wrote: On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 08:55:29PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: (I'm not sure why the Configure shell code contains tests for .c too - historical reasons? No, recent reasons. Building Win32CORE on Cygwin:

Re: VMS, configure.com and nonxs_ext

2009-09-08 Thread H.Merijn Brand
On Tue, 08 Sep 2009 06:47:38 -0500, Craig A. Berry craigbe...@mac.com wrote: On Sep 8, 2009, at 4:33 AM, Nicholas Clark wrote: On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 05:15:51PM -0500, Craig A. Berry wrote: There's also dynamic_ext, right? Shouldn't dynamic_ext plus nonxs_extensions equal

Re: VMS, configure.com and nonxs_ext

2009-09-08 Thread Andrew Dougherty
On Mon, 7 Sep 2009, Nicholas Clark wrote: On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 08:55:29PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: This might be rather a big favour request. This might be easier than I first thought Would it be possible to augment the configure.com code that finds extensions to correctly

Re: VMS, configure.com and nonxs_ext

2009-09-08 Thread Craig A. Berry
On Sep 7, 2009, at 9:42 PM, Andrew Dougherty wrote: On Mon, 7 Sep 2009, Nicholas Clark wrote: Would it be possible to augment the configure.com code that finds extensions to correctly partition nonxs_extensions from known_extensions? (being the rather bonkers way that Configure partitions

Re: VMS, configure.com and nonxs_ext

2009-09-07 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 08:55:29PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: This might be rather a big favour request. This might be easier than I first thought Would it be possible to augment the configure.com code that finds extensions to correctly partition nonxs_extensions from known_extensions?

Re: VMS, configure.com and nonxs_ext

2009-09-07 Thread Craig A. Berry
On Sep 7, 2009, at 4:46 PM, Nicholas Clark wrote: On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 08:55:29PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: This might be rather a big favour request. This might be easier than I first thought It occurred to me we ought to revisit this after getting vms/ext into ext. I don't