At 02:22 PM 5/10/00 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Dan Sugalski wrote:
>
> > I'm going to be messing about in perl's guts again next week. The big VMS
> > things I'm planning on are getting the non-compiling things compiling on
> > VMS (perl's malloc, Ithreads, a MULTIPLICITY build) and making
> > configure.com take and save defaults, with symbol overrides. I'll add in a
>
>Sounds good - perhaps both a config.com and a Policy.com?
That works. I'm uncertain whether we should go and skip compiler tests too,
if the C compiler and OS versions are the same. Probably not, since a
different C RTL version will change things.
> > question to make it skip the manifest check as well. (That should speed
> > things up for multiple rebuilds, especially on VAXen) If we're lucky we
>
> "-m" : skip the MANIFEST check to see that all files are present
I see someone snuck that in for 5.6.0. Keen! I'd remembered the issue
coming up, but I missed the fix.
Dan
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