Peter Prymmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Martin Vorlaender wrote:
>
> > > Were you seeing the informational message before?
> >
> > Nope, the only thing I saw was
> >
> > Checking to see if you have long double...
> > You have long double.
> > Checking to see how big your long doubles are...
> > Your long doubles are bytes long.
> >
> > as it would be if just_mcr_it didn't set the tmp symbol
> > (after having initialized it to "").
>
> alright.
The fix works.
> > > You might try running `mms test` in separate builds with d_longdbl =
> > > "define" and d_longdbl = "undef" to see if there is a measurable
> > > difference in timing (assuming that there are no tests that probe the
> > > value of $Config{d_longdbl} and run a harder set of tests if
> > > the value is matches /define/i).
> >
> > Stand by, please... (oh, if I had all the time I wish I had...)
>
> Hehe - I know the feeling all too well.
>;-)
There's no noticable difference:
MMK TEST with d_longdbl='define'
Accounting information:
Buffered I/O count: 80245 Peak working set size: 4204
Direct I/O count: 4401 Peak virtual size: 8116
Page faults: 23909 Mounted volumes: 0
Images activated: 47
Elapsed CPU time: 0 00:03:44.94
Connect time: 0 01:09:47.43
MMK TEST with d_longdbl='undef'
Accounting information:
Buffered I/O count: 80212 Peak working set size: 4280
Direct I/O count: 4390 Peak virtual size: 8116
Page faults: 23628 Mounted volumes: 0
Images activated: 45
Elapsed CPU time: 0 00:03:45.83
Connect time: 0 01:10:43.58
> > The problem already is with the call to perl_setup.com
> > (where the dreaded $ SET COMMAND is issued).
> >
> > When building perl, I circumvented it by modifying perl_setup (I
> > don't use it anyway - my perl command is in the systemwide DCL
> > table). But I'll look into a more concise way to solve the
> > problem (please stand by - see above <sigh>).
>
> That sounds like a real bug in configure.com. It is supposed
> to ask this question if you will not be using a foreign symbol:
...
> $ echo "Since you won't be using a symbol you must choose to put the
>''packageup'"
> $ echo "verb in a per-process table or in the system wide DCLTABLES (which"
> $ echo "would require write privilege)."
I definitely didn't see that. I'll have a look into it.
cu,
Martin
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