Thanks. I guess I thought that a lot of these patches you
mentioned would have been folded into .660. I'll investigate
each and see if they are and I'll search the archives for others.
I hope to have a new OpenVMS advocacy web site up soon. Maybe
I'll post such collated information there.
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2000 2:49 PM
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> Subject: RE: Patches for 5.5.650 to build?
>
>
> Jordan Henderson wrote:
>
> > I've seen a flurry of activity here with people working on
> getting 5.5.650 to
> > build.
> >
> > I'd like to give it a shot in my environment. Is there a
> single place to look
> > for all the patches that people have discovered to get it going?
> >
> > If the answer is no, then perhaps I'll sort through them
> and make them available
> > in one place.
>
> I do not know of a single place. By the way 5.5.660 was
> released today and
> you would do better to focus on that. IIRC I've seen:
>
> * Charles Bailey's patch to handle $^X differently in system and qx.
> * Charles Lanes's patch for the build.
> * a discussion of iconv.h and how to modify
> subconfigure.com (no patch)
> * my patch (presumably in 5.5.660) that dealt with pods on
> unix && vms
> but did not help the build one whit.
>
> A volunteer to help coordinate is very much appreciated.
>
> Peter Prymmer
>
