"Craig A. Berry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> At 10:33 AM 5/24/00 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> I was going to work on getting current (5.6.0 vs 5.005_02)
>> and wondered about the patches for 5.6.0.
>
>> So, I wondered if thereis any one place that has all the
>> current patches in one place?
>
> I'm working on a consolidated patch, which I hope to have ready today or
> tomorrow. My plan is to have one patch with everything except Chuck Lane's
> since he's provided ready access to his patches at
> <http://www.crinoid.com/perl560.htmlx> (Note: he's updated at least a couple
> of them today although he hasn't told us yet :-)).
*Caught*! I should have known! ;)
The update today was to add the "DEFINE PERLSHR..." stuff in vms/test.com;
the same stuff I posted a patch for this morning.
I put it in the VMSMISC consolidated patch, and remove fiddling with
the same definition in the VMSPIPE patch so that the patches wouldn't
conflict.
My (and one of Craig's) patches are gathered into 4 "big" patches:
VMSMISC ...lots of little miscellaneous patches, combined...
VMSPIPE ...the piping changes...
VMSSOCK ...fix Perl's "print" to a socket on VMS
TZ ...TZ fix for pre7.0 systems
The patches are generally the ones that I've found necesary to get
5.6.0 to build and test cleanly, as well as run certain applications
such as CPAN.PM.
> Chuck has a lot of
> important fixes in addition to the pipe stuff but as far as I can remember
> none of it has been submitted to p5p -- Chuck, what's the plan for getting
> your stuff into 5.6.1?
I'd like to get them into 5.6.1, but I'm leery of submitting them to
p5p without some broad consensus that they really do what they're
supposed to. It's all too easy to trip over AXP/VAX, VMS 6.2-7.2 and
compiler differences, unfortunately.
One clear result is that running CPAN.pm will help you find
problems...particularly in File::* modules. But so far the piping
stuff has been pretty clean.
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