Here's a patch (assuming eudora doesn't eat it, which it undoubtedly will)
to configure.com to allow you to ask for a -D-enabled perl (disabled by
default) and to subconfigure.com to fix the bogus symbol errors.
--- configure.com;1 Mon Mar 13 10:44:53 2000
+++ configure.com Mon Mar 13 10:49:41 2000
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
$ macros = ""
$ extra_flags = ""
$ user_c_flags = ""
-$ use_debugging_perl = "y"
+$ use_debugging_perl = "n"
$ use_ieee_math = "n"
$ be_case_sensitive = "n"
$ use_vmsdebug_perl = "n"
@@ -1722,6 +1722,25 @@
$ use_vmsdebug_perl = "N"
$ ENDIF
$!
+$!
+$! Ask if they want to build with DEBUGGING
+$ echo ""
+$ echo "Perl can be built with extra runtime debugging enabled. This
+$ echo "enables the -D switch, at the cost of some performance. It
+$ echo "was mandatory on perl 5.005 and before on VMS, but is now
+$ echo "optional. If you don't generally use it you should probably
+$ echo "leave this off and gain a bit of extra speed.
+$ dflt = "n"
+$ rp = "Build a DEBUGGING version of Perl? [''dflt'] "
+$ GOSUB myread
+$ IF ans.eqs."" then ans = dflt
+$ IF F$EXTRACT(0, 1, F$EDIT(ans,"COLLAPSE,UPCASE")) .eqs. "Y"
+$ THEN
+$ use_debugging_perl = "Y"
+$ ELSE
+$ use_debugging_perl = "N"
+$ ENDIF
+$!
$! Ask if they want to build with MULTIPLICITY
$ echo ""
$ echo "The perl interpreter engine can be built in a way that makes it
--- vms/subconfigure.com;1 Mon Mar 13 10:44:49 2000
+++ vms/subconfigure.com Mon Mar 13 11:49:03 2000
@@ -3961,8 +3961,8 @@
$ WC "d_eunice='" + perl_d_eunice + "'"
$ WC "libs='" + perl_libs + "'"
$ WC "libc='" + perl_libc + "'"
-$ WC "xs_apiversion='" + localperlver + "'"
-$ WC "pm_apiversion='" + localperlver + "'"
+$ WC "xs_apiversion='" + version + "'"
+$ WC "pm_apiversion='" + version + "'"
$ WC "pager='" + perl_pager + "'"
$ WC "uidtype='" + perl_uidtype + "'"
$ WC "uidformat='" + perl_uidformat + "'"
Dan
--------------------------------------"it's like this"-------------------
Dan Sugalski even samurai
[EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even
teddy bears get drunk
